WATCH: Groundbreaking Africatown site gives voice to enslaved people illegally brought to Alabama 163 years ago
Congress forbade the United States from taking part in the Atlantic slave trade in 1807. Still, slavers decades later illegally... The post WATCH: Groundbreaking Africatown site gives voice to enslaved people illegally brought to Alabama 163 years ago first appeared on NABJ Black News & Views.
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Congress forbade the United States from taking part in the Atlantic slave trade in 1807. Still, slavers decades later illegally brought 110 Africans to the shores of Alabama, setting fire to the Clotilda slave ship to hide their crime. Now, the descendants of those enslaved people are telling their story through a new museum in Mobile. Greg Morrison reports.
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