| Summary: | A report on the Clotilda, the last known ship to bring enslaved Africans to America. Remnants of the Clotilda were discovered near the Alabama community Africatown, where many of the descendants of those enslaved passengers still live. Excavation efforts to uncover and examine the remnants have helped historians to gain an understanding of the ship's shameful history. Includes interviews with Jocelyn Davis, Lorna Gail Woods, Thomas Griffin, Jeremy Ellis, Darron Patterson, Caprinxia Wallace, Cassandra Wallace and Pat Frazier, descendants of passengers of the Clotilda; James Delgado, a maritime archaeologist who helped verify the wreck; Stacye Hathorn, state archaeologist; Mary Elliott, who oversees the collection of slavery artifacts at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.; and Mike Foster, descendant of the Clotilda's captain.
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