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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Zohran Mamdani is a member of the New York State Assembly and the Democratic nominee in the 2025 race for New York City mayor. He describes himself as a democratic socialist and has centered his mayoral campaign on pledges to make the city more affordable. A little-known member of the Assembly when…
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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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