By Victor Trammell Photo credits: Photo Researchers On July 8, 1860, the slave ship Clotilde landed at Mobile, Alabama, well over 50 years after Congress outlawed the importation of enslaved Africans. More than 100 West African slaves were on board the ship. The Clotilde's captain, William Foster, was eventually identified as working for white Mobile […]

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