S6 Ep17: Meaher's Illegal Gamble: The Last Slave Ship

S6 Ep17: Meaher's Illegal Gamble: The Last Slave Ship

In 1859, a wealthy Alabama landowner made a bet that he could do the unthinkable. The next spring, he did just that — trafficking human beings from West Africa to the United States a half-century after it had been made a federal crime punishable by death. The Clotilda brought back 110 men, women and children. For more than 150 years, the ship sat buried in the mud of a Mobile Bay bayou, as if the whole thing had never happened.

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S6 Ep12: Above Suspicion: The FBI Informant Who Disappeared

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