The Last Slave Ship - Ben Raines

The true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors founded after emancipation, and the complicated legacy their descendants carry with them to this day---by the journalist who discovered the ships remains.  Fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed, the Clotilda became the last ship to bring enslaved Africans to the United States. The ship was burned and remained hidden for the next 160 years. But in 2019, Ben Raines successfully concluded his obsessive quest to uncover one of the nation's most important historical artifacts in the swamps of Alabama.    Traveling from Alabama to the ancient African kingdom of Dahomey in modern-day Benin, Raines recounts how the Clotilda is a ghost haunting three communities: the descendants of those transported into slavery, the descendants of their fellow Africans who sold them, and the descendants of their American enslavers. Against all odds, the captives of the Clotilda founded Afric