The last ship known to have smuggled ... powerfully suggests that this is Clotilda." The US banned the importation of slaves in 1808, but the slave trade carried on beyond this date as there ...

Until her death 85 years ago on January 13, 1940, Matilda was the last surviving passenger on the last-ever slave ship bound ...

On July 7, 1860, the last slave ship to land in the U.S. moored off the coast of Alabama. Crowded in the fetid hull of the Clotilda were 103 African captives, mostly adolescents and children.

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 ...

The wreck of the last known US slave ship should remain under water as a memorial, a task force of historians and archaeologists has said. The Clotilda was rediscovered in 2019 in the Mobile river ...

The Clotilda was then taken into Delta waters north of the port ... That publicity helped spark a renewed search last year that found another wreck now identified as the slave ship. Officials didn't ...

Amy Albers to discuss America's last slave ships during the Evening With History lecture at the Marietta History Center.

"Museums have power, and that ship loses its power if it is sitting in the water," said Ben Raines, a former local reporter ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Clotilda is understood to be the last known slave ship to arrive in America. Survivors from that ship founded Africatown in 1866. A defining moment in history now recognized by the National ...