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On July 9, 1860, the Clotilda, a two-masted 86 foot schooner anchored off Point of Pines in Grand Bay, Mississippi carrying 110 enslaved Africans in spite of the 1807 Act Prohibiting the Importation of Slaves. It was the last known U.S. slave ship, and among its youngest passengers was two-year-old Matilda McCrear, who would survive until 1940, becoming one of the last living links to the transatlantic slave trade.
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*some sources say April 6, 1845
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