Sylviane A. Diouf

'Dreams of Africa in Alabama'

Bog | Engelsk

In the summer of 1860, more than fifty years after the United States legally abolished the international slave trade, 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria were brought ashore in Alabama under cover of night. They were the last recorded grou

'Slavery's Exiles'

Bog | Engelsk

The forgotten stories of America maroonswilderness settlers evading discovery after escaping slavery Over more than two centuries men, women, and children escaped from slavery to make the Southern wilderness their home. They hid in the mountains of Virgin