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Bookmark or Share- The Clotilda In Mobile, AL | Last Slave Ship In The USALearn about Clotilda, the last slave ship to enter the United States, that was discovered at its final resting place in Mobile, Alabama in 2018.
- Last American slave ship is discovered in Alabama - National GeographicLast American slave ship is discovered in Alabama. The schooner Clotilda smuggled African captives into the U.S. in 1860, more than 50 years after importing slaves was outlawed.
- Clotilda (slave ship) - WikipediaThe schooner Clotilda (often misspelled Clotilde) was the last known U.S. slave ship to bring captives from Africa to the United States, arriving at Mobile Bay, in autumn 1859 [1] or on July 9, 1860, [2] [3] with 110 African men, women, and children. [4] The ship was a two-masted schooner, 86 feet (26 m) long with a beam of 23 ft (7.0 m).. U.S. involvement in the Atlantic slave trade had been ...
- Clotilda | Slave Ship, Captain, & Wreckage | BritannicaClotilda, schooner built near the city of Mobile, Alabama, in 1855.The last known trafficking of enslaved people from West Africa to the United States took place on the ship in 1860.. Design, construction, and context Owner and captain: William Foster. The ship’s owner and captain, William Foster, came from a line of ship carpenters and mariners in Nova Scotia.
- The 'Clotilda,' the Last Known Slave Ship to Arrive in the U.S., Is ...The ‘Clotilda,’ the Last Known Slave Ship to Arrive in the U.S., Is Found. The discovery carries intense personal meaning for an Alabama community of descendants of the ship’s survivors
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