A review by meredith_peruzzi
The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade by Hannah Durkin

dark sad slow-paced

4.5

I genuinely appreciate the sheer amount of research that went into this book. Although it borrows heavily from Barracoon (maintaining the use of dialect, which some readers may find difficult), there is also an extensive amount of additional work presented here. There are now several books on the Clotilda, but Durkin's is comprehensive: her explorations into the more modern Africatown bring the book a level of clarity not seen in others. The threads of various survivors weave in and out of the story, journeying through time into the current era.