National Geographic Interactive - 02.2020

(Chris Devlin) #1

Righting old wrongs
Ossa Keeby (far left)
and his descendant
Karliss Hinton
Ossa Keeby was likely
a fisherman on the
Kebbi River in north-
western Nigeria before
he was captured. He
and his wife, Annie,
became successful
farmers, raised nine
children, and owned
several plots of land.
“My grandmother was
a Keeby, and she told
me all about the ship,”
says Karliss Hinton, an
Army veteran. “It took
all these years for folks
to recognize my peo-
ple. It may take time,
but a right always over-
comes a wrong.”

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