Enslaved Africans smuggled into Alabama in the schooner Clotilda founded Africatown after the Civil War. Now residents want to raise the wreck from under the Mobile River as a symbol of pride.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2019/05/26/us/slave-ship-alabama-africatown.html
‘Ship of Horror’: Discovery of the Last Slave Ship to America Brings New Hope to an Old Community – The New York Times
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