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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 last known U.S. slave ship is too “broken” and decayed to be extracted from the murky waters of the Alabama Gulf Coast without being dismembered, a task force of archaeologists, engineers ...
Researchers studying the wreckage of the last U.S. slave ship, ... The Clotilda was the last ship known to transport African captives to the American South for enslavement. Nearly 90 feet (27 ...
Researchers studying the wreckage of the last U.S. slave ship, buried in mud on the Alabama coast since it was scuttled in 1860, have made the surprising discovery that most of the wooden schooner ...
Believing the wreck to be that of the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to arrive in the United States, an archaeological survey was performed on March 1–4, 2018. [2] The wreck was determined not to be the Clotilda , as it was longer (approximately 158 feet (48 m) long, compared to the Clotilda's 86 feet (26 m)) and constructed of pine ...
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The Clotilda, the last documented slave ship to enter America, made its surreptitious voyage some five decades after the international slave trade was outlawed, amid one of the most pivotal ...
Clotilda’s remains stayed unidentified in the brackish Mobile River until 2019. MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — The last known U.S. slave ship is too “broken” and decayed to be extracted from the ...