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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...