I haven’t seen anything of that sort anywhere else." Clotilda’s story began when Timothy Meaher, a wealthy Mobile landowner and shipbuilder, allegedly wagered several Northern businessmen a ...

The ship belonged to Alabama plantation owner Timothy Meaher and was captained by William Foster, who sailed to the Kingdom of Dahomey in present-day Benin and purchased 110 captives kidnapped ...

As Raines writes, the story began with Timothy Meaher, a slaveholder and steamboat captain who (according to later recollections) made a $1,000 bet that he could smuggle enslaved people into the ...

Alabama funded a $1 million investigation to see if the Clotilda, the last known slave ship in the US, can be excavated from the Mobile River. The ship’s captain, Willam Foster, traveled to ...

The wooden schooner at the heart of the investigation was commissioned in 1860 by Timothy Meaher, one year before the Confederacy was created and decades after the importation of slaves was made ...

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — The last known U.S. slave ship is too “broken” and decayed to be extracted from the murky waters of the Alabama Gulf Coast without being dismembered, a task force of ...

He says there are plenty of documents and records of the ship's travel, firsthand accounts from the Clotilda captain, an interview with financier Timothy Meaher and survivor Cudjo Lewis.

At the behest of a wealthy Mobile businessman and slaveholder named Timothy Meaher, who had wagered a bet that he could smuggle enslaved people into the United States undetected, Captain William ...

Proving that musical talent runs in the family, Tim McGraw's nephew Timothy Wayne has signed his first record deal with UMG Nashville. It's a major career move for the Louisiana State sophomore ...

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 ...