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The Clotilda and Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship
In 1860, decades after the international slave trade was outlawed, a wealthy Alabama shipowner financed a secret voyage to the Kingdom of Dahomey. The schooner Clotilda smuggled 110 captives into Mobile Bay, and when the Civil War ended, those survivors founded a community called Africatown. This episode tells the story of the Clotilda's voyage, the men who financed it, the survivors who built a new home, and the 2018 discovery of the shipwreck. We also discuss the legacy of Timothy Meaher, the legal loopholes that made the voyage possible, and the efforts to preserve Africatown today…
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