The storyteller joins a team of African American divers on their worldwide quest to shed light on the untold history of the ...

They were two of the 110 enslaved survivors aboard the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to bring Africans to the Americas on 8 July 1860. They arrived in my hometown of Mobile, Alabama ...

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 ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The Alabama Historical Commission has released potential preservation plans for the Clotilda, the last ...

Then, in 2015, a Portuguese ship called the São José was discovered off the coast of Cape Town. Three years later, the Clotilda, America’s last known slave ship, turned up in Alabama’s ...

The Clotilda’s arrival into the Mobile Bay occurred in 1860, or 52 years after the transatlantic slave trade had been outlawed. The vessel, a wooden schooner, was the last known slave ship from ...

When you raise that Clotilda… oh my god.” You may also like Netflix’s Descendant: the Obamas’ powerful new documentary tells the story of the last known slave ship to reach the US Brief ...

“All the talk, printed and spoken, has had to do with ships and rations ... Ocean in the belly of the Clotilda, and the five-and-a-half years he lived as a slave. “Our grief so heavy ...

from uncovering the fascinating history of the Clotilda – the last-known slave ship to arrive in the U.S. – to celebrating Carnival at the country's oldest Mardi Gras event. Read on to ...