Last Slave Ship Found on Alabama Coast Validates Descendants' Stories
May 30, 2019
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The slave trade was abolished in 1808, but this ship, the Clotilda, sailed in 1860 and was sunk by its owner once he won his bet and sold his human cargo. Historian Sylviane Diouf discusses the discovery