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“they ask for water we give them sea
they ask for bread we give them sea
they ask for life we give them only the sea”
― M. Nourbese Philip, Zong!

“As touching Slave-ships meeting, why, they are in such a prodigious hurry, they run away from each other as soon as possible. And as for Pirates, when they chance to cross each other's cross-bones, the first hail isâ€� "How many skulls?"â€� the same way that whalers hailâ€� "How many barrels?" And that question once answered, pirates straightway steer apart, for they are infernal villains on both sides, and don't like to see overmuch of each other's villanous likenesses.”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick

“Mobile's AfricaTown:
Published timelines of African-American history invariably mention that the last slave ship to bring Africans to North America was the *Clotilde* � what they never explain is how this happened 50 years after the United States banned the importation of slaves.
The explanation is both trivial and tragic. Timothy Meaher, a wealthy Mobile shipbuilder, made a wager over a few whiskies that he could elude federal agents�
…While descendents of the Clotilde captives still hold reunions in the area, there is little physical evidence of this community’s origins, except for the bust of Cudjoe Lewis�
…Lewis (who was originally called ‘Kazoolaâ€�) died in 1945, possibly the last surviving slave-ship captive in America.”
― Gary Bridgman, Lonely Planet Louisiana & the Deep South