The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How 'Clotilda' Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning

"Alabama journalist Ben Raines digs deep into the legacy of the Clotilda, the ship that smuggled the last enslaved Africans to America, 50 years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed. Raines traces the voyage back to present-day Benin in West Africa and talks to modern-day leaders there about how they’re reckoning with that history. Back in Mobile, Ala., he describes how he found the remains of the Clotilda on a river bottom. The discovery has fostered a renewed hope for reconciliation and recognition for descendants of the Clotilda’s captives and the community they founded, called Africatown."