It began with a bet in 1859 and would end in a burning in 1860, but, for the 110 African men, women, and children who had been illegally smuggled into the United States aboard the Clotilda, the flames that engulfed it were only the beginning of their new lives as slaves. The story of the schooner Clotilda, the last ship to transport slaves from Africa to North America, is a microcosm of the epic...
