In this unit, students learn about the experience of one of these formerly enslaved persons, Cudjo Lewis, whose words were captured by author and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston in the book Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo." They investigate the recent discovery of the remains of the Clotilda at the bottom of Mobile Bay, and learn what it takes to authenticate barely recognizable artifacts. When slavery was abolished in the United States, the survivors of the Clotilda could not afford to return to Africa, so they created their own small piece of Africa in Alabama, which they named Africatown. Despite this, the last-know group of Africans who were forcibly taken, came to Mobile, Alabama, United States, in 1860 on the Clotilda. Although the reprehensible practice of slavery was legal in the United States, the international transport of Africans was banned under U.S.
The mass abduction and enslavement of over 12.5 million Africans against their will across the Atlantic Ocean from the 16th century until the early 19th century is known as the transatlantic slave trade.
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