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Africatown and the Clotilda, the last slave ship
Plateau, Mobile, Alabama
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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. Freed after the war and unable to get home, the survivors bought land and founded their own town, governing it under their own headman and speaking Yoruba. Zora Neale Hurston interviewed Cudjo Lewis, the last of them, in 1927. The wreck was found in 2019.
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