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Beyond what is written, history exists. For years, the residents of Mobile, Alabama's Africatown have discussed their ancestry. Their village was created by ancestors who were transported in 1860 aboard Clotilda, the final known and illegal slave ship. Even though the ship was deliberately sabotaged upon arrival, its memory and legacy remained intact. Now, the long-awaited discovery of the Clotilda's bones provides this people with a concrete connection to their ancestors and confirmation of a past that so many attempted to hide.

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