Kinder, Gary.
Summary: The riveting true account of death, danger, and discovery on the high seas in the dramatic search for America's greatest lost treasure. In September 1857, the side-wheel streamer S.S. Central America, carrying five hundred passengers and tons of gold from the mountains of California, sank in a hurricane off the Carolina coast. Lost in legend for more than a century, the tragic story resurfaced...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 1998
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1998
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 910.452 KINTabor, Nick
Summary: "In 1860, a ship called the Clotilda was smuggled through the Alabama Gulf Coast, carrying the last group of enslaved people ever brought to the U.S. from West Africa. Five years later, the shipmates were emancipated, but they had no way of getting back home. Instead they created their own community outside the city of Mobile, where they spoke Yoruba and appointed their own leaders, a story...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023