Such a sad story, but with an optimistic side. I can’t understand how people could, and still can, treat others in such a way.
Once upon a time in Alabama, there was a racist white man named Charles Agustus Lamar who was angry with Northern states and their desire to end slavery. He devised a plan to send a ship to Africa to buy Africans for $100 and sell them for $1,500. His ship, called the “Wanderer,” made national news in 1858 that it had successfully imported 370 people from Africa who would be enslaved.
However, the slave trade had been outlawed, and Lamar was arrested for illegal slaving.
That’s when another racist white man, steamboat captain Timothy Meaher, made a bet that he could do the same thing but not get caught.
On July 8, 1860, the ship (called the Clotilde / Clotilda) sailed into waters near Mobile Bay carrying 110 men, women, and children stolen from Africa under the cover of night.
They were bought from the Dahomey tribe at…
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Thanks for posting this, Quite a tale and not one I’d heard before. I do not understand slavery or racism. It’s depressing that they both still exist.
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I hadn’t heard it before, either, and thought it should reach a wider audience. And I can’t understand them, either.
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What a story, Viv. Unfortunately the legacy of slavery is alive and well in the US. For some unfathomable reason, some people have to hate others to feel important. And worst of all, we have a political party that promotes it. Ugh.
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I agree. Unfathomable. And slavery isn’t finished, not even in so-called richer countries. Human trafficking still goes on, and people are exploited.
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Oh, I know. And it’s rampant and getting worse! It makes me hope that karma is a real thing.
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Yes. I hope so too. Evil is certainly a thing.
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That was quite a story!
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And one I didn’t know until I read it.
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