Resources on the TransAtlantic Slave Trade in Africatown, Alabama

Trans-Atlantic Voyage of Captive Africans to Africatown | Open Tour

Africatown, Alabama – Annotated Bibliography

Photo Archive – Alabama

Disclaimer:

The content of these documents provides details of the Middle Passage, specific vessels transporting captive Africans, the arrival of these people, and the ubiquity of slavery. The following resources include racist language as well as references to violence, dehumanization, and the enslavement of Africans. The language contained in the following documents may be upsetting to some readers.

Books and Literature

Clotilda: The History and Archaeology of the Last Slave Ship
Dreams of Africa in Alabama
Historic Sketches of the South
The Last Slave Ship
The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Making of AfricaTown, USA
*Used by Permission of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Africatown: America’s Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created
Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”

Newspaper Articles

July 26, 1859 – Advertiser and Register
July 18, 1860 – Montgomery Weekly Post
October 04, 1977 – The Anniston Star
October 04, 1977 – The Anniston Star
March 04, 1892 – Birmingham Post-Herald

Videos

Further Reading

Africatown 2021

The slave trade continued long after it was illegal — with lessons for today – The Washington Post

Finding the last ship known to have brought enslaved Africans to America and the descendants of its survivors – CBS News

Clotilda, ‘last American slave ship,’ discovered in Alabama

Descendants of Slave Ship Clotilda honor their ancestors in Africatown