![]() ![]() “The biggest thing for us is to make sure that no one ever forgets this story. The captives of the Clotilda endured a cruel ocean voyage packed into a cargo hold and five years of slavery but were able to maintain their African customs, Patterson said. Patterson’s great-great-grandfather, Kupollee - a beekeeper, farmer and woodworker - was one of the 110 on the ship. And their stories were amazing stories,” he said. It’s about the people who were in the cargo hold. But Patterson said the focus should be on the people it carried. The 2019 discovery of the remnants of the Clotilda sparked renewed interest in its saga. ![]() The voyage, which happened decades after the law banning the importation of slaves had taken effect, began as a bet when a wealthy plantation owner wagered he could import a shipload of slaves without being caught. In 1860, the Clotilda illegally transported 110 people from what is now the west African nation of Benin to Mobile, Alabama. ![]()
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