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Book Review


Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America. By Sylviane A. Diouf. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xii, 340 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-19-531194-4.)
In Dreams of Africa in Alabama, Sylviane A. Diouf restores to their proper place in history the 110 African men, women, and children who were taken to America on the slave ship Clotilda in 1860. According to Diouf, the story of the Clotilda and Africans she transported to America has been long denied and ignored despite that it "is probably the best-documented story of the American slave trade" (p. 249). Diouf's masterful storytelling, thorough research, and deft handling of the body of sometimes-conflicting sources bring the story to light and effectively set the record straight. . . .
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