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There's also Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade by Hannah Durkin, an immersive and revelatory history of the survivors of the Clotilda, the last ship of the Atlantic slave trade.

MOBILE, Ala. — A museum that tells the history of the Clotilda - the last ship known to transport Africans to the American South for enslavement - opened Saturday, exactly 163 years after the vessel arrived in Alabama’s Mobile Bay.

Ceremonies dedicating the $1.3 million Africatown Heritage House and “Clotilda: The Exhibition” took place Friday and Saturday in Mobile.

The captain, William Foster, transferred women, men and children off the Clotilda once it arrived in Mobile and set fire to the ship to hide evidence of the journey.

Remnants of the Clotilda were discovered in 2019, and Meaher’s descendants released a statement last year calling his actions 160 years ago “evil and unforgivable.”