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The 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).
The publication of Sylviane Diouf’s book Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America (2007) laid such conjecture to rest, showing that there was no question the voyage had actually occurred. “Far from being a hoax,” she wrote, “the last slave voyage to the United States—and the lives of the people on board—is probably ...
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
Dec 21, 2021 · When the 160-year-old wreckage of the Clotilda, America’s last known slave ship, was positively identified in the murky waters of the Mobile River in 2019, that was enough for Joycelyn Davis ...
Dec 25, 2021 · “The Clotilda is an essential historic artifact and stark reminder of what transpired during the trans-Atlantic slave trade.” The Clotilda’s final voyage ... The Slave Ship Clotilda and the ...
May 19, 2022 · The sunken Clotilda has remained in the same spot for the last 162 years. Though rumors swirled about the Clotilda ’s existence for years, researchers officially confirmed the ship’s location ...
Jan 16, 2020 · According to newspaper interviews and oral histories given by the survivors over the years and detailed in my book Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last ...
