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Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Zora Neale Hurston's rediscovered classic Barracoon, an immersive and revelatory history of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on US soil, told through the stories of its survivors - the last documented survivors of any slave ship - whose lives diverged and intersected in profound ways.The Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on American soil, docked in Mobile Bay, Alabama, in July 1860 - more than half a century after the passage of a federal law banning the importation of captive Africans, and nine months before the beginning of the Civil War. The last of its survivors lived well into the twentieth century. They were the last witnesses to the final act of a terrible and significant period in world history.
About the Author
Hannah Durkin is a Lecturer in Literature and Film at Newcastle University, UK. She is the author of Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham: Dances in Literature and Cinema (University of Illinois Press) , co-author with Celeste-Marie Bernier, Alan Rice, and Lubaina Himid of Inside the Invisible: Memorialising Slavery and Freedom in the Life and Works of Lubaina Himid (Liverpool University Press) , and co-editor with Celeste-Marie Bernier of Visualising Slavery: Art Across the African Diaspora (Liverpool University Press) .
