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Podcast: American Shoreline Podcast Network
Episode: The Clotilda Legacy: From Slave Ship to Unity, Revitalization, and Hope with Darron Patterson
Description: On this episode, hosts Peter Ravella and Tyler Buckingham talk to Darron Patterson, the president of the Clotilda Descendants Association. Darron, himself a descendant of one the survivors of the last slave ship to import enslaved Africans to the United States, talks about the history of the Clotilda. The story of how Patterson's relative arrived in America aboard an illegal slaver started as a bet. 52 years after the US banned the importation of enslaved people, in 1860, a wealthy Alabama business owner named Timothy Meaher wagered that he could orchestrate for a haul of kidnapped Africans to sail under the...