Descendants of the last Africans abducted and shipped to the United States into slavery will gather this weekend on the US Gulf Coast. Descendants of the last Africans abducted and shipped to the United States into slavery will gather this weekend on the US Gulf Coast. Descendants from last US slave ship gather in AlabamaThe event will be held on Saturday in Mobile, Alabama, at Africatown, a once-thriving community settled by freed blacks from Africa after the Civil War. The area is now economically depressed with a dwindling population, and there are few remnants of the original settlers. Unable to return home to Africa, about 30 of them used money earned working in fields, homes and vessels to purchase land from the Meaher family and settle Africatown.

Source: Irish Independent February 08, 2019 07:41 UTC