More than 160 years ago, a schooner carrying illegal human cargo sailed into Mobile Bay. It was a half-century after the importation of slaves had been outlawed in the U.S.
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On July 8, 1860, 110 kidnapped West Africans were offloaded from the Clotilda in the Mobile River. 163 years later to the day, the Africatown Heritage House and “Clotilda: The Exhibition” opened to the public.
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