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Captain William Foster was captain of the schooner Clotilda, [9] working for Timothy Meaher, a wealthy Mobile shipyard owner and steamboat captain. In 1855 [10] or 1856, [11] Meaher had built Clotilda, a two-masted schooner 86 feet (26 m) long with a beam of 23 feet (7.0 m) and a copper-sheathed hull, designed for the lumber trade.
Captain Foster purchased 110 enslaved Africans to bring back to Alabama, but only 108 survived the voyage. [9] The voyage lasted a total of 126 days. [9] When the Clotilda arrived back in Mobile Bay Alabama, Foster and Meaher had to work late into the first night to unload the enslaved Africans off of the ship without getting caught by the ...
The captain, William Foster, transferred women, men and children off the Clotilda once it arrived in Mobile and set fire to the ship to hide evidence of the journey.
Lewis and fellow Clotilda survivor Abaché (Clara Turner) c. 1914.By then there were eight surviving members of the Clotilda group.. During their time in slavery, Lewis and many of the other Clotilda captives were located at an area north of Mobile known as Magazine Point, the Plateau, or "Meaher's hammock," where the Meahers owned a mill and a shipyard.
The Clotilda's captain transferred its human cargo off the ship once it arrived in Alabama and set fire to the vessel to hide evidence of the journey. But most of the ship didn't catch fire and ...
On Saturday, the Africatown Heritage The post ‘Clotilda: The Exhibition’ chronicles America’s last known ship carrying enslaved people appeared first on TheGrio.
Emanuela, ship seized in 1860 with over 800 slaves aboard. Erie, the ship owned and captained by Nathaniel Gordon, the only American executed for slave trading; Esmeralda, captured 1 November 1864 off Loango, West Coast of Africa, by HMS Rattler (1864) and Taken to St. Helena to prize court by C.G. Nelson midshipman in command. [citation needed]
Clotilda is the last known ship to bring enslaved people to the United States from Africa. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us ...