Nick Tabor

Nick Tabor

 

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 is his first book. He lives in New York.

John H. Smith (left), mayor of Prichard, Alabama, unsuccessfully campaigned for the creation of an Africatown national park.

Untold Stories of American History

The Forgotten 1980s Battle to Preserve Africatown

A new book tells the definitive history of an Alabama community founded by survivors of the slave trade

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