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A Shipwreck Leads to a Reckoning

In “The Last Slave Ship,” Ben Raines tells the story of the Clotilda, the founding of Africatown, Ala., and a history that wouldn’t stay buried.

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Ben Raines on The Last Slave Ship and Africatown, Alabama

In 2019, journalist Ben Raines helped find the Clotilda. He discusses his book, "The Last Slave Ship," and the triumph and tragedy of its descendants.

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The Last Slave Ship review: the Clotilda, Africatown and a lasting American injustice

Ben Raines offers a welcome and affecting history lesson about a dark moment in US history and how its legacy lingered

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Author Ben Raines On His New Book, The Last Slave Ship

(aired Thu 1/20/22) In the summer of 1860 - on the eve of the Civil War - a schooner arrived in Mobile Bay, Alabama. The Clotilda was the last known ship to bring enslaved Africans to the United States from what is now Benin in West Africa, fifty years after the U.S. Congress outlawed the Atlantic slave trade.

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Nonfiction Book Review: The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning by Ben Raines Simon & Schuster, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-9821-3604-8

Nonfiction Book Review: The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning by Ben Raines Simon & Schuster, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-9821-3604-8
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