'Still fighting': Africatown, site of last US slave shipment, sues over pollution
by Lauren Zanolli in Africatown, Alabama from Environment | The Guardian on (#3EAYQ)
In 1860 the last, illegal, shipment of slaves to the US landed in this part of Alabama. Now hundreds of the largely African American residents are suing an industrial plant claiming it released toxic chemicals linked to cancer
From the front seat of his truck, Joe Womack points out the site where the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to enter the US, landed in 1860, 52 years after it outlawed the international slave trade.
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