The Last Ship to Bring Enslaved Africans to America Arrived in 1860

Name: The Last Ship to Bring Enslaved Africans to America Arrived in 1860
Uploaded: 2024-05-24
Duration: 291502
Description: By 1860, the US was no longer officially involved in the international slave trade. That same year, an illegal slave ship, the Clotilde, arrived in Mobile, Alabama, carrying the last slaves to be brought to America from Africa. In 2018, editor Deborah Plant published a forgotten book by acclaimed African-American writer Zora Neale Hurston. It told the true story of the Clotilde.

By 1860, the US was no longer officially involved in the international slave trade. That same year, an illegal slave ship, the Clotilde, arrived in Mobile, Alabama, carrying the last slaves to be brought to America from Africa. In 2018, editor Deborah Plant published a forgotten book by acclaimed African-American writer Zora Neale Hurston. It told the true story of the Clotilde. (04:51)

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