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A Black man and woman stand by side, wearing a suit and a blouse/long skirt. They stand on grass and are surrounded by shrubbery.
Cudjoe Kazoola Lewis and Abache were among the group aboard the Clotilde.

Last ship carrying enslaved Africans docks in Alabama.

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Cudjoe Kazoola Lewis and Abache were among the group aboard the Clotilde.

The Clotilda arrives from Benin with 110 African men, women, and children between the ages of 5 and 23 on board, fifty years after the legal end of the international slave trade. The arrival and "sale" of those on board is carried out in secret. When "legal slavery" supposedly ends five years later, many of those forced into slavery from the Clotilda will come together to establish Africatown (located near Mobile, Alabama), a town known to be rooted in traditional African ways.