![]() ![]() ![]() Latham and Waters use a different poetic form for each narrator, giving each a distinct personality. Most well known is Kossola, who was long thought to be the last known survivor of the Atlantic slave trade. The highly personal stories in verse reveal the different aspects of this illegal trade and the impact on both the Black enslaved people and the White crew members. Fourteen voices, including that of the ship, tell the tale of that journey across the Middle Passage and the years following their enslavement, first in the Alabama swamps, then on plantations, and finally in the free settlement of African Town (later renamed Africatown). There, Foster purchased 110 people-including a 2-year-old girl-who had been captured by the king’s soldiers. William Foster, sailed from Mobile, Alabama, to the kingdom of Dahomey. In 1860, a ship called the Clotilda, under the leadership of Capt. ban on the importation of enslaved labor, plantation owner Timothy Meaher bet that he could bring in a shipload of Africans. A fictionalized account of the last slave ship to bring captives from Africa to the United States.ĭespite the U.S. ![]()
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