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Terry Alford
Author
Language
English
Description
"The story of Abraham Lincoln as it has never been told before: through the strange, even otherworldly, points of contact between his family and that of the man who killed him, John Wilkes Booth. In the 1820s, two families, unknown to each other, worked on farms in the American wilderness. It seemed unlikely that the families would ever meet-and yet, they did. The son of one family, the famed actor John Wilkes Booth, killed the son of the other, President...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2007, c1977
Edition
30th anniversary ed.
Physical Desc
xx, 316 pages, [8] pages of plates : genealogical tables, illustrations, map, portraits ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Overview: In this remarkable work, Terry Alford tells the story of Abd al Rahman Ibrahima, a Muslim slave who, in 1807, was recognized by an Irish ship's surgeon as the son of an African king who had saved his life many years earlier. "The Prince," as he had become known to local Natchez, Mississippi residents, had been captured in war when he was 26 years old, sold to slave traders, and shipped to America. Slave though he was, Ibrahima was an educated,...
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1788, a slave ship sailed from the Gambia River with hundreds of men, women and children bound in chains. Eight months later, a handful of survivors were sold in Natchez, Mississippi. One of them made an astonishing claim: he was a prince of an African kingdom larger and more developed than the newly formed United States. The true story of an African prince who endured the humiliation of slavery without losing his dignity or hope of freedom.
