Book

Africatown

America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created

Nick Tabor

2023

St. Martin's Press

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

John H. Smith (left), mayor of Prichard, Alabama, unsuccessfully campaigned for the creation of an Africatown national park.

The Forgotten 1980s Battle to Preserve Africatown

A new book tells the definitive history of an Alabama community founded by survivors of the slave trade.

by Nick Tabor via Smithsonian on February 20, 2023

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