The traffickers burned the ship to hide their crime, but the survivors built Africatown, preserving a legacy America tried to erase.

What they tried to bury still lives. INerasable.

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Oluale Kossola was a living indictment of a country that claimed slavery was “over” while still dragging human beings across the ocean in chains. In 1860 he was kidnapped from Dahomey, forced onto the slave-ship Clotilda.

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