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S6 Ep17: Meaher's Illegal Gamble: The Last Slave Ship

Crimes of the Centuries

Jun 22, 202656:23Society & Culture

In 1859, a wealthy Alabama landowner made a bet that he could do the unthinkable. The next spring, he did just that — trafficking human beings from West Africa to the United States a half-century after it had been made a...

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