A review by nanikeeva
The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning by Ben Raines

4.0

a bit of history i had often wondered about, regarding the diasporic nature of the consequences of the slave trade. good bit of investigative journalism when it came to calling out layer after layer of legal, environmental, social etc disregard/abuse suffered by Africatown from its white neighbors, starting with literal slavery and ending - well, really, continuing - with industrial toxins. good amount of calling out for the family of the slave trafficker as well. definitely learned something new about Benin/that even among West Africans on the continent there were collaborators and victims.