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Africatown and the Clotilda, the last slave ship
Plateau, Mobile, Alabama · 1866
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The Clotilda landed 110 people from Benin in 1860, fifty years after the slave trade was banned, on a bet by a Mobile shipowner that he could get away with it, and he did, burning and sinking the ship upriver.
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