Abdul Aziz, Meaher’s Trap House, 2021, Archival pigment print, Courtesy of the artist

Book Recommendations:

1. The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Making of AfricaTown, USA:  Spirit of Our Ancestors by Natalie S. Robertson (2008, Praeger Publishers) 
2. The History and Archaeology of the Last Slave Ship Clotilda by James P. Delgado, Deborah E. Marx, Kyle Lent, Joseph Grinnan, and Alexander DeCarco (2023, The University of Alabama Press) 
3. Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America by Sylviane A. Diouf (2009, Oxford University Press) 
4. Set the World on Fire:  Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom by Keisha N. Blain (2018, University of Pennsylvania Press) 
5. A Black Gaze:  Artists Changing How We See by Tina M. Campt (2021, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 
6. Committed to Memory:  The art of the Slave Ship Icon by Cheryl Finley (2018, Princeton University Press) 
7. The Black Church in the African American Experience by C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya (2003, Duke University Press) 
8. When Harlem Was in Vogue by David Levering Lewis (1989, Oxford University Press) 
9. Barracoon:  The Story of the Last “Black” Cargo by Zora Neale Hurston (2018,HarperCollins Publishers) 
10. In Search of African American Space:  Redressing Racism edited by Jeffrey Hogrefe, Scott Ruff with Carrie Eastman and Ashley Simone (2020, Lars Müller Publishers)