The Clotilda arrived in Mobile Bay, a shallow inlet in theGulf of Mexico that borders Alabama, in 1859. The ship carried 110 illegally enslaved people, as the slave trade had been banned in the United States byCongressthrough theAct Prohibiting Importation of Slaveson March 2, 1807. The stories of the Africans who arrived on that ship, […]
The post Obama's Higher Ground and Participant Partner for 'Descendant' Film Impact Campaign appeared first on Ebony.
