I first learned about the Clotilda in a National Geographic History Magazine. Soon after Zore Neale Hurston’s magnificent book “Baracoon” (the place close to the ocean where the recently captured Africans were kept before they boarded ships bound for the American South) finally came out-80+ years after she wrote it after spending a lot of time with Kudjo Lewis, one of the few enslaved people from the Clotilda that was still alive in the 1930’s. Hurston wrote the story in Kudjo’s dialect which adds to the immediacy of his story. From the day that the female Dahomey warriors came and kidnapped him to the time he finished telling them his story, and especially what life was like in the “Middle Passage” where the enslaved people were chained and lived under the most inhumane of conditions. The Meaher Brothers and their skipper friend thought that sneaking enslaved people into the US, even while the punishment was death, through blockades and other obstacles was great fun. They never once stopped to think about their “cargo”. To me this was the most despicable aspect of a tragic story. I’m glad that the story of Africatown is finally being told. It’s the very least we can do to honor the African Americans who were brought here against their wills.

One word Reparations!

Very interesting video. This stuff blows my mind.

This was mentioned by one of the ladies of the Democratic Convention conclave and I had to find out about the schooner as the last Slave Ship 1860 with 100 men, women and children.

Who are the ancestors that owned the Clotilda ?and where are They?

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The wreckage of the ship the Clotilda was discovered not so long ago. It was the very last slave ship to America, it returned to the US in July of 1860 with about 150 sub Saharan slaves from the kingdom of Dahomey. "For much of the 18th and 19th centuries, the Kingdom of Dahomey was an important regional power that had an organized domestic economy built on conquest and slave labor, significant international trade with Europeans, a centralized administration, taxation systems, and an organized military. Notable in the kingdom were significant artwork, an all-female military unit called the Dahomey Amazons by European observers, and the elaborate religious practices of Vodoo with the large festival of the Annual Customs of Dahomey which involved large scale human sacrifice. They traded prisoners, whom they captured during wars and raids, and exchanged them with Europeans and Americans for goods such as knives, bayonets, firearms, fabrics, and spirits."

Where is the rest of the boats ? And can we do our own examination.

Reparations is needed now....

The owner former owner of the Clotilda ship is still and real estate owners they should be sharing some of their wealth with the descendants of the slaves

What was the name of the man who set it on fire? Did everyone survive? I hope Noone drown or died that was on that ship.

Why scuttle the ship?

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Start with cudjo lewis's stories on them movie clips

How come the Whitehouse isn't set up like a plantation in real life if it that old kind of Kamasutra time?

I've read about this story

So the majority of BLACK Ppl believed this!?! Really!?!

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Well is our wedding jumping over a broom this time?

This historic event hurts my heart so much... the way these people in this world have made history by doing such horrific acts,, slave ships, cult leaders with mass suicidal murder, the holocaust, so on amd so on....I am very bothered by this ship and what it's history is with treating humans like nothing, inhumane and benefited from the Africans body's, hands their time and took everything from these Africans and have even taken pieces of AFRICATOWN! they should be repuration for AFRICATOWN to restore it's history and put it back to how it was when the Africans made it with prayers, sweat, tears and happiness..preserve AFRICATOWN for those ancestors buried there because their souls are alive, they should help fix the resting place of the ancestors that founded AFRICATOWN...Let them keep this, have this so they can continue a legacy and noone that isn't african American yet to benefit from their present and future....I am with Africa town 💯% I always hope and pray for the entire town and the descendants 🙏🏼🫂🥺😔❤️

Remember romance fist lady Dolia?

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If camera's was invented in 1816 and the ship left Africa in 1860 why isn't there any pictures of this event like the slaves walking on the ship and a picture of them inside the ship in chains I always saw drawings and sketches of slaves in chains and who was the person that drew the pictures

So the owners would feed the slaves sometimes or didn't feed them at all that's why they was dying they died of starvation.

You act like we haven't gotten married alot of times with me like this because we love eachother and my mother is rich.... lol

Well if the Marines are telling me to come out of the house how many years ago? Look at the laser guns, keep watching in real life, ya'll are luck your turn was over! Lol

See why my wife gets sooooooo mad that I'm not treated this way? That's what we are taught is romantic when you won't let us have a marriage like normal in the Whitehouse

Logic says the story is made up. A. One story says it's not just the bet that he could smoke one slaves, but he wanted to do it because they were cheaper than the ones that were already on the land... Which seems odd considering you have to get a crew together to take the journey to Africa on 2-3 month voyage 1-way. You have to have enough supplies for each crew member and the slaves you purchase to feed them for the 3-month journey home. B. It is impossible to take the same route to and from Africa because the ocean's current wouldn't allow it. It would have been like going the wrong way on an escalator. Quadrupling the length of time of travel. C. The US was the ship-building capital of the world. The slaves themselves built the ships. Chances are, that ship was built in America and it never left America.