• Nick Tabor on America’s Last Slave Ship and the Community it Created

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    In this KEEN ON episode, Andrew talks to Africatown author Nick Tabor about the Clotilde, America’s last slave ship and the community it created outside of Mobile, Alabama.

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    Nick Tabor is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in New York Magazine, The New Republic, The Washington Post, Oxford American, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. Africatown is his first book. He lives in New York.


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