Claire worked in the marketing department for an up-and-coming artisan bakery.

Unfortunately, the artisan bakery in question was so up-and-coming.

Nobody actually knew it existed.

But then she had the really good idea to use Canva to create a business plan.

It looked good, really, really good. Their investors thought so too.

And now their hotcakes are selling like, well, exactly. Thanks, Canber.

Welcome to the History Extra podcast, fascinating historical conversations from the makers of BBC History Magazine.

Setting sail in the year 1860, the Clotilda was the last ship to transport enslaved people from Africa to America.

In her new book, Survivors, A History of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade,

Hannah Durkin has traced the lost stories of the final people to be transported on the ship

and explores what their experiences can tell us about the slave trade in general.

David Musgrove spoke to Hannah to find out more.

So, abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire took place in 1807,

and the same year the Act prohibiting importation of slaves was passed in the States.

And yet, the ship, the Clotilda, brought slaves to America from Africa in 1860.

So that is half a century after that fact.

Clearly, the slave trade had not ended.

Can you give us a little sense of how that came about?

Yeah, so as you say, slavery is legally abolished

in the British Empire and in the United States. The United States declares the trade piracy

in 1820, which means it's a capital crime, so you can be executed for participating in it.

But the trade never stops. It's mostly centres on Brazil and Cuba, certainly Cuba by the 1850s.

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