Sylviane A. Diouf is an award-winning historian of the African Diaspora. She is the author of Slavery's Exiles, Servants of Allah, and Dreams of Africa in Alabama. Diouf is a Curator at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library.
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In the summer of 1860, more than fifty years after the United States legally abolished the international slave trade, 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria were brought ashore in Alabama under cover of night. They were the last recorded grou... SEE MORE