1788.
The slave ship Africa set sail from the Gambia River, its hold laden
with a profitable but highly perishable cargo-- hundreds of men, women
and children bound in chains—headed for American shores. Eight months
later, a handful of survivors found themselves for sale in Natchez,
Mississippi. On the slave auction block, one of them, a 26-years-old
male named Abdul Rahman Ibrahima is an African Prince.
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