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In May 2019, the world became informed that the wreckage of the last slave ship, the Clotilda, had been discovered on the Alabama shore. This book tells the story of its journey, its survivors, and their descendants.At a time when the tide began to change and white Americans were starting to see that enslaving people was wrong, creating laws making it illegal, the Clotilda and other ships were secretly used to travel to Africa and back, carrying⬇️
JenniferEgnor Africans illegally, to slavery in America. Upon its last return, the Clotilda was destroyed and sunk in an effort to hide what Timothy Meaher and William Foster had done. This is an important part of American history that we should not forget. The legacy of slavery‘s horrors persist to this day. Netflix has a documentary about the Clotilda. Link to an NPR article here: 1mo
JenniferEgnor https://www.npr.org/2022/06/15/1105007375/exploring-the-clotilda-the-last-known-... 1mo
JenniferEgnor This book discusses the resistance and endurance throughout the tragedy and loss the survivors of the Clotilda experienced. When the Clotilda returned to Alabama shores for the last time, it was carrying 110 enslaved people. Some of them lived to see the beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement; some died living in the same cabins they‘d lived in while they were enslaved. The land and descendants are still living without equity today. (edited) 1mo
JenniferEgnor In a time when the facts of America‘s history are being debated and deliberately covered (example: banning books, making DEI guidance illegal, threatening librarians and educators), will the history of the Clotilda be seen as necessary to learn about, as the Mayflower was? It must. 1mo
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