The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America
by
Sylviane A. Diouf
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2007
In the summer of 1860, more than fifty years after the United States legally abolished the international slave trade, 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria were brought ashore in Alabama under cover of night. They were the last recorded group of Africans deported to the United States...