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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Olivia B. Waxman

 

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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...

www.yahoo.com

...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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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

www.yahoo.com

Olivia B. Waxman

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.

 

[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.