Tag: Clotilda
Museum to Honor Clotilda Slave Ship Survivors Opens in Alabama
By John Sharp, AL.com
A first-of-its-kind museum dedicated to the Clotilda - the last known slave ship - and its 110 survivors officially opened on...
State of Alabama given ownership of last U.S. slave ship
By Jay Reeves
Associated Press
The last slave ship known to have landed in the United States more than 150 years ago has a new owner:...
Inside Historic Africatown With Descendants of Slave Ship Clotilda
By Vickii Howell
Special to the Birmingham Times
MOBILE, Ala.—For decades, a handful of ancestors and neighborhood historians held down the legends of Africatown’s founding, recalling...
The Spectacular Find of the Clotilda and What’s Next
By Vickii Howell
Special to the Birmingham Times
MOBILE, Ala.—The discovery of the Clotilda slave ship last month in the Mobile River Delta is one of...
Clotilda: Last US slave ship discovered among gators, snakes
By Jay Reeves
Associated Press
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The old wooden ship hull didn’t look like much when researchers first saw it: just broken, waterlogged...
