Alabama shipwreck holds key for kin of enslaved Africans

MOBILE, Ala. -- Keys to the past and the future of a community descended from enslaved Africans lie in a river bottom on Alabama's Gulf Coast, where the remains of the last known U.S. slave ship rest a few miles from what's left of the village built by the newly freed people after the Civil War.

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