African American History Culture : America's last slave ship could offer a case for reparations

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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America's last slave ship could offer a case for Reparations

America's last slave ship could offer a case for reparations

Alabama steamship owner Timothy Meaher financed the last slave vessel that brought African captives to the United States, and he came out of the Civil War a wealthy man. Many of their descendants today hold working-class jobs. Now, the history of Meaher and the slave ship Clotilda may offer one...

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...may offer one of the more clear-cut cases for slavery reparations, with identifiable perpetrators and victims.


JAY REEVES
Associated Press

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[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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Montgomery, Ala., Was a Hub of the Slave Trade and a Center of the Civil Rights Movement. It's About to Swear in Its First Black Mayor

Montgomery, Ala., Was a Hub of the Slave Trade and a Center of the Civil Rights Movement. It's About to Swear in Its First Black Mayor

Here's how Steven L. Reed sees that past—and his city's future

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[Clyde C Coger Jr]

It is now 2019 and Montgomery Alabama was incorporated in 1819 so sadly it took 200 years for it to elect it's very first Black Mayor. I wish him the best in his endeavor. Well I'll just say better late then never. Thnx for the revelation.

Well said CulturalActivity, well put indeed.