In 1860, Timothy Meaher with Captain William Foster illegally carried over a hundred enslaved Africans on the Clotilda then wrecked and abandoned the ship to conceal their trip. The slave trade ...

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it exists at all because of the tenacity of 110 occupants of the Clotilda—the last slave ship to have entered America under the cloak of night. As the story goes, in 1860, a wealthy landowner ...

Gabriela Shinskie Maxim van Norden, a University of Southern Mississippi (USM) hydrography adjunct professor was recently ...

"Museums have power, and that ship loses its power if it is sitting in the water," said Ben Raines, a former local reporter who wrote a book about the Clotilda entitled The Last Slave Ship ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — A plaque unveiling on Saturday recognized Lewis Quarters, 7 acres purchased by survivors of the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to arrive in the U.S. During a ceremony ...