AFRICATOWN: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created

In 1860, a ship called the Clotilda was smuggled along the Alabama Gulf Coast, carrying the last group of enslaved people ever brought to the U.S. from West Africa. Five years later, the shipmates were emancipated, but they had no way of getting back home. Instead, they created their own community where they spoke Yoruba and appointed their own leaders. 8 pages of photos.