African Town

by Irene Latham and Charles Waters

Book Overview

Chronicling the story of the last Africans brought illegally to America in 1860, African Town is a powerful and stunning novel-in-verse.

In 1860, long after the United States outlawed the importation of enslaved laborers, 110 men, women and children from Benin and Nigeria were captured and brought to Mobile, Alabama aboard a ship called Clotilda. Their journey includes the savage Middle Passage and being hidden in the swamplands...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593322886
• ISBN13: 9780593322888
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12