‘A LIFE OF MISERY’: AFRICANS SEEK REPARATIONS FOR TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE CRIME

‘A LIFE OF MISERY’: AFRICANS SEEK REPARATIONS FOR TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE CRIME

Matilda McCrear was just two when she was kidnapped in 1860 along with her mother Grace and three sisters by slave traders in present-day Nigeria. They were forced onto Clotilda, the last slave ship to transport Africans to the United States. The ship docked in Alabama in July 1860, more than 50 years after Congress outlawed the transatlantic slave trade in 1808 – though slavery itself was abolished in 1865.  The 110 men, women, and children on …