An Alabama Port Authority railroad project that generated concern in Mobile’s Africatown community has passed a review by the ...

After betting that he could smuggle a slave ship into the country and escape the consequences, wealthy Alabama plantation owner Timothy Meaher sailed to what was then the Kingdom of Dahomey ...

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 ...