Most African Americans are aware of this, a ship that sailed 100 years before my birth.  Not that long ago!

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/25/580052897/reporter-may-have-discovered-clotilda-the-last-american-slave-ship

More information:

http://www.sylvianediouf.com/dreams_of_africa_in_alabama__the_slave_ship_clotilda_and_the_story_of_the_last_a_58311.htm

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/01/24/the-last-u-s-slave-ship-was-burned-to-hide-its-horrors-a-storm-may-have-unearthed-it/?utm_term=.e12de6645910

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