Keys to the past and the future of a community descended from enslaved Africans lie in a river bottom on Alabama’s Gulf Coast, where the remains of the last known U.S. slave ship rest a few miles from what’s left of the village built by newly freed people after the Civil War. Work performed this month will …
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Alabama Shipwreck Holds Key to the Past for Descendants of Enslaved Africans: “Be Sure That That Legacy Lives On”
Keys to the past and the future of a community descended from enslaved Africans lie in a river bottom on Alabama’s Gulf Coast, where the remains of the last known U.S. slave ship rest a few miles from what’s left of the village built by newly freed people after the Civil War. Work performed this month will …
Alabama Shipwreck Holds Key to the Past for Descendants of Enslaved Africans: “Be Sure That That Legacy Lives On”
Keys to the past and the future of a community descended from enslaved Africans lie in a river bottom on Alabama’s Gulf Coast, where the remains of the last known U.S. slave ship rest a few miles from what’s left of the village built by newly freed people after the Civil War. Work performed this month will …