Sunday, CBS' 60 Minutes featured the story of the Clotilda, the last known U.S. slave ship, which brought 110 captives from Africa to Mobile in 1860.
This happened after the slave trade had been outlawed. But a steamboat captain made a bet that he could sneak enslaved Africans into the country without being caught. And he did.
To keep from being found out, the ship was scuttled and burned.
The remains of that ship were discovered two years ago in the Mobile River.
Anderson Cooper talked with some of the descendants of those enslaved aboard the ship, who want to make sure their legacy is never forgotten.
Emma Langdon Roche-Historic Sketches of the South (New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1914)
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Wreckage of slave ship,Clotildafrom Historic sketches of the South by Emma Langdon Roche, publisher: New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1914.
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- Created: 1 January 1914