In 1860\, long after the United States out lawed the importation of enslaved laborers\, 110 men\, women and children from Benin and Nigeria were captured and brought to Mobile\, Alabama aboar d a ship called Clotilda. Their journey includes the savage Middle Passage and being hidden in the swamplands along the Alabama River before being s ecretly parceled out to various plantations\, where they made desperate at tempts to maintain both their culture and also fit into the place of capti vity to which they'd been delivered. At the end of the Civil War\, the sur vivors created a community for themselves they called African Town\, which still exists to this day. Told in 14 distinct voices\, including that of the ship that brought them to the American shores and the founder of Afric an Town\, this powerfully affecting historical novel-in-verse recreates a pivotal moment in US and world history\, the impacts of which we still fee l today.
\nThe program will also be streamed live on the Hoover Libr ary \;YouTube \;and \;Faceboo k \;pages.
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