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Clotilde (c. 474 - 545) was a Burgundian princess who married Clovis I, the first king of the Franks, and influenced him to convert to Catholicism. She led a devout life, built churches, and became a patron saint of several causes.
Sail plan. Schooner. The schooner Clotilda(often misspelled Clotilde) was the last known U.S. slave shipto 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 beamof 23 ft (7 ...
Her ancestor, Charlie Lewis, was brutally ripped from his homeland, along with 109 other Africans, and brought to Alabama on the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to arrive in the United States ...
Clotilde, Chrodichild ou Chrodechilde Note 1, née vers 474 ou 475 3 peut-être à Vienne, Montmirey-Le-Chateau, Lyon ou Genève, morte autour de 545 4 à Tours, est une princesse burgonde, devenue reine des Francs en épousant Clovis vers 492/493 ou 502. Cette sainte est vénérée en Orient comme en Occident.
Learn about the life and legacy of Saint Clotilde, the wife of King Clovis I of the Franks, who brought Catholicism to his people. Discover how she influenced the history and culture of France and became a saint in both Catholic and Orthodox churches.
The ship’s arrival on the cusp of the Civil War is a testament to slavery’s legal presence in America until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865. After the war, people who had been held captive aboard the ship helped found the community of Africatown, a community that exists to this day. The Clotilda’s original registry.
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May 22, 2019 · The schooner Clotilda —the last known ship to bring enslaved Africans to America’s shores—has been discovered in a remote arm of Alabama’s Mobile River following an intensive yearlong ...
