Literature at Lakeport features Barracoon and The Last Slave Ship

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Literature at Lakeport features Barracoon and The Last Slave Ship

This summer, Lakeport Plantation Museum will host two book discussions focused on the Clotilda, the last slave ship in the United States. The Atlantic slave trade was banned in 1808 in the United States. That didn’t stop Timothy Meaher from…