This 2018 photo shows the remains of a ship that could be the Clotilda, the last slave ship documented to have delivered captive Africans to the United States. The discovery, as reported by National Geographic and Smithsonian Magazine, “is an extraordinary archaeological find,” representing “tangible evidence of slavery,” the commission’s executive director, Lisa Demetropoulos Jones, said in a statement. Last year, buried in silt, they found what they believed was the real Clotilda, using 3-D scanners and other technology, according to National Geographic. We seventy days cross de water from de Affica soil, and now dey part us from one ’nother,” he told Hurston. The future generations would grow up hearing the stories of how their ancestors were abducted from their homelands and forcibly taken to America on the Clotilda, Woods told National Geographic.

Source: Washington Post May 23, 2019 11:09 UTC