cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/58385047

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_McCrear

Although the United States banned the importation of slaves in 1808, the practice was still carried out illegally. The last known slave ship was the Clotilda, which smuggled roughly 110 Yoruba captives from Dahomey to Alabama in 1860.

The first commercial flight from the US to Britain took place in 1939. By that point, there were already regular flights from Britain to various parts of Africa, including Lagos (which is predominantly Yoruba). The last Yoruba survivor of the Clotilda, Matilda McCrear, passed away in 1940.

  • ikt@aussie.zoneEnglish
    114·
    2 days ago

    I mean it’s 2025, slaves are transported from Africa to the middle east every day, any wikipedia articles on them ?

    Hell there’s still slavery in Africa by Muslims

    Maliki Islam in precolonial West Africa campaigned assiduously against the transatlantic slave trade, but in the 19th and 20th centuries many Malikis justified continued slavery inside Mauritania in some or all of its forms

    Belief in an interpretation of Islam in which slaves are “told that their paradise is bound to their master and that if they do what the master tells them, they will go to heaven”.[34]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Mauritania

    Wow

    • agent_nycto@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      1 day ago

      Ok, yeah, slavery still exists and that’s bad, and it’s not like slavery disappeared worldwide just because chattel slavery was made illegal in the US, but it’s still pretty important to learn about the specific type of slavery that is relevant to this article. Why not “yes and” instead of “what about”?

    • Crackhappy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      52·
      2 days ago

      There are more slaves in the United States (estimated) than there were at the beginning of its Civil War.