History is always closer than you think.

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History is always closer than you think. Here is the story of the last surviving person to be brought from Africa as a slave in the mid-19th century, some fifty years after the slave trade was made illegal.

Originally shared by Mary Brown
http://www.history.com/news/zora-neale-hurston-barracoon-slave-clotilda-survivor?cmpid=Social_Google_SiteShare

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