Nick Tabor
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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: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created is his first book.
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Lloyd Austin was the United States secretary of defense (2021–25). He assumed this position in January 2021, two days after Pres. Joe Biden’s inauguration. During his 41-year career in the U.S. Army, Austin served as director of the Joint Staff, was commanding general of U.S. and coalition forces…
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Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created (February 2023)
An evocative and epic story, Nick Tabor's Africatown charts the fraught history of America from those who were brought here as slaves but nevertheless established a home for themselves and their descendants, a community which often thrived despite persistent racism and environmental pollution. 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....
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