Ben Raines

Raines is the author of The Last Slave Ship, The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning, which came out on Jan. 25

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History Demands We Preserve the Wreck of America's Last Slave Ship

The wreck of the Clotilda, the last ship to bring enslaved Africans to the United States, remains buried in mud on the bottom of the Mobile River in Alabama, exactly where I discovered the long-lost...

By Ben Raines
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