Last known slave ship to arrive in U.S. discovered in Alabama 00:44. Keys to the past and the future of a community descended from enslaved Africans lie in a river bottom on Alabama's Gulf Coast ...

In 1537, Spanish explorer Hernando DeSoto took 50 African slaves to Florida. One named Robles, who apparently was Christian, was left at Coosa, Alabama, because he was too ill to walk.

A video showing Alabama residents insisting that slaves were not treated badly has gone viral on social media.. The clip—which comes from "Chelsea Does Racism," an episode of Chelsea Handler's ...

Whatever the rate, a slaveholder's tax bill was tiny compared to the slave's value. In 1860, an Alabama slaveholder would pay no more than $1.10 in taxes (about $30 in 2016 dollars) for a 15- to ...

Coats and the slaves - and some say a few Cherokees – set to work on building the house: a 14-room, two-story mansion built in the shape of a T, with porches facing out from both floors on ...

The descendants of Alabama slave owner Timothy Meaher –who hired Capt. William Foster to smuggle 110 captive Africans to Mobile on his ship, Clotilda– had for years refused to meet with the ...

More than 50 years after the slave trade was outlawed, the Clotilda brought 110 Africans on the final harrowing journey through the Middle Passage to America. For generations, their descendants ...

Last American slave ship is discovered in Alabama. The schooner Clotilda smuggled African captives into the U.S. in 1860, more than 50 years after importing slaves was outlawed.

Shipwreck discovered in Alabama may be remains of last boat to bring slaves to US. Illegal cargo of slaves was smuggled into the US in 1859 by slavers who had placed a bet on successfully flouting ...