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The Last Known Slave Ship That Is Said To Have Brought About 110 African Slaves, In 1860, Has Been Found In Alabama. The Ship, Known As Clotida, Is Said To Have Been Burned By The Owner To Cover-Up Wrong Doing After An 1808 US Law That Banned Slave Importation. The Slaves Built A Community In Africatown, Alabama.

Clotilda, Last Known Ship Carrying Captives For Slavery, Found, Researchers Say : NPR

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/22/725900872/alabama-historians-say-the-last-known-slave-ship-has-been-found

The Clotilda carried 110 people from present-day Benin to the shores of Mobile in 1860, despite the import of slaves being illegal. Researchers told descendants about the discovery first.