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dixiegrrrrl

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Fri May 11, 2018, 06:58 AM

May 2018

The slave ship that brought Cujo and the others was called The Clotilde ...tho some say the name was mis-spelled and was actually the Clotilda.
Slaves were kidnapped from Ghana, and from there taken to Benin, to be sold, then were put on the Clothilda.
many sources say this ship was also burned after use.

Africa town is now part of a town called Pritchard, about 3 miles north of Mobile.

Another good book on the subject is

Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America

by Sylviane A. Diouf .

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