Dig reveals story of America's last slave ship -- and its survivors
 

http://blog.al.com/live/2010/08/stor..._americas.html


This link suggests that blacks in Alabama descend from Africans in Benin but nonetheless:


The story of Africatown began when 110 African men, women and children were brought as captives from Dahomey, on the coast of west Africa, to Mobile in 1860. The trip was financed by Timothy Meaher, a Mobile shipyard owner in business with his brothers Burns and James Meaher.

Timothy Meaher had commissioned the voyage to buy the Africans, despite a federal ban on importing slaves. The Clotilda's arrival marked the last known instance of captured Africans being brought to the United States.
The ship, said Norman, was known as "the last slaver."