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In the summer of 1860, more than fifty years after the United States legally abolished the international slave trade, 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria were brought ashore in Alabama under cover of night. They were the last recorded group of Africans deported to the United States as slaves. Timothy Meaher, an established Mobile businessman, sent the slave ship, the Clotilda , to Africa, on a bet that he could "bring a shipful of niggers right into Mobile Bay under the officers' noses." He won the bet.

This book reconstructs the lives of the people in West Africa, recounts their capture and passage in the slave pen in Ouidah, and ...

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In the summer of 1860, more than fifty years after the United States legally abolished the international slave trade, 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria were brought ashore in Alabama under cover of night. They were the last recorded group of Africans deported to the United States as slaves. Timothy Meaher, an established Mobile businessman, sent the slave ship, the Clotilda , to Africa, on a bet that he could "bring a shipful of niggers right into Mobile Bay under the officers' noses." He won the bet.

This book reconstructs the lives of the people in West Africa, recounts their capture and passage in the slave pen in Ouidah, and describes their experience of slavery alongside American-born enslaved men and women. After emancipation, the group reunited from various plantations, bought land, and founded their own settlement, known as African Town. They ruled it according to customary African laws, spoke their own regional language and, when giving interviews, insisted that writers use their African names so that their families would know that they were still alive.

The last survivor of the Clotilda died in 1935, but African Town is still home to a community of Clotilda descendants. The publication of Dreams of Africa in Alabama marks the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.

Winner of the Wesley-Logan Prize of the American Historical Association (2007)

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Provides readers with the opportunity to consider African culture, its survival even under slavery, its sense of community with roots in West Africa, and the difficulties of maintaining community in a segregated and increasingly Jim Crow South in the late 19th century. Highly recommended.
Civil War Book Review
Diouf immerses the reader in the diversity and complexity of Africa.... The narrative is patient, disciplined, compelling, and brave, never shying away from the central role that Africans played in the enslavement of other Africans.... One puts down this compelling book convinced both of the significance of the Africans at the center of it, and that Diouf has given us a superb history.
—Eric Love
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Journal of American History
Diouf's masterful storytelling, thorough research, and deft handling of the body of sometimes-conflicting sources bring the story to light and effectively set the record straight.
QBR: The Black Book Review
...a major contribution to pan-African and Black trans-Atlantic studies.... Dreams of Africa in Alabama reads as a novel, yet it is the product of rigorous research. . . .
—Sylvie Kandé

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780195311044
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Publication date: 3/9/2007
  • Pages: 352
  • Product dimensions: 9.30 (w) x 6.40 (h) x 1.30 (d)

Meet the Author

Sylviane A. Diouf is an award-winning author of books on African and African diaspora history and culture. She has taught at Libreville University and New York University and is currently a curator at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

Known Africans Deported to Mobile on the Clotilda 6

1 Mobile and the Slave Trades 7

2 West African Origins 30

3 Ouidah 55

4 Arrival in Mobile 72

5 Slavery 90

6 Freedom 126

7 African Town 151

8 Between Two Worlds 182

9 Going Back Home 207

Epilogue 233

Appendix: The Numbers of the Illegal Slave Trade 241

An Essay on Sources 245

Notes 251

Bibliography 295

Index 329

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 23, 2007

    Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America

    Drawn to the title, startled by its premise you continue to read. Hoping to read something new, it became immediately clear that Sylviane Diouf has, indeed, composed something different. Within the pages of Dreams of Africa in Alabama a world, previously unknown, is opened and refuses to allow you to close the door without the full story.   January 1808 the international trade in slaves was outlawed by the United States. Unfortunately, there were plenty of white men, such as Captain William Foster who continued to profit from the capture and sale of Africans along the western coast of Africa long past the abolition date. More appalling is the fact that the financier and receiver of the majority of the last recorded African contraband had yet to become an American citizen himself? Timothy Meaher was a plantation owner and ship builder who had been heard bragging proudly, that he could bring a shipload of Africans across the Atlantic and into the American population, undetected. And so he did with the help of William Foster, a duped ship's crew, and various nefarious characters in the backwoods and canebrakes of Alabama.   Standing on and sometimes correcting research done by other writers such as notable Zora Neale Hurston (Hurston completed the manuscript Barracoon in April 1931), Sylviane Diouf has produced a book that is truly worth adding to your personal library. From the details concerning trekking across the West African coast in a coffle and being stripped of all clothing before being herded into the bowels of a ship to being ostracized by those who look like you, but are not your neighbors, the lives of the 110 women, men, and children of the slaver Clotilda are played out before you. At times your heart bleeds for the unknowing Africans and at other times you want to respond out loud to the success of the founders of African Town.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 27, 2007

    An amazing story

    A wonderful book. Reading like a novel, this book is incredibly well-researched and documented. I have read many books on the slave trade but it is the first time I ever found so many details on Africans who arrived in America through the transatlantic slave trade. Diouf does not write about unknown ¿numbers¿ but about individuals who have pictures, names, personal stories, and whole lives before capture in Benin and Nigeria that she reconstructs with great care. We discover them in their hometowns walk with them to the coast, witness their last moments in the barracoon, and feel their pain during the Middle Passage. But this book is not about grief, it¿s a celebration of the unity, ingenuity, and love for their homelands of a group of young people who created their own Africa in Alabama. It¿s about what in their cultures helped them survive and prosper in America, how they raised generations of men and women who were Africans in America and still live in the town their ancestors founded. It¿s gripping. Anybody with interest in African American history NEEDS to read this book, it's truly wonderful.

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