America’s last slave ship could offer a case for reparations

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — The discovery of the last ship that brought Africans to the United States as slaves may offer a test case for reparations.
Relatives of steamship owner Timothy Meaher, who financed the trip in 1860, still live in Mobile, Alabama. So do descendants of the people he enslaved.
And while no formal push for reparations has begun, the subject has been bubbling up quietly since earlier this year, when experts identified the wreckage of the slave ship Clotilda.
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