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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.
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.
Meaher had its captain, William Foster (1825–1901), burn and scuttle Clotilda in Mobile Bay, attempting to destroy evidence of their joint lawbreaking. The wreck was located in 2019. [11] The enslaved Africans brought to the US aboard the Clotilda were enslaved for five years until the 13th Amendment to the Constitution was passed in 1865. [1]
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 ...
The ship’s discovery in 2019 reignited a longstanding debate over how to address the harrowing legacy of the Clotilda, especially for the direct descendants of the survivors.
The exhibition opens on the 163rd anniversary of the 110 Africans’ arrival in Mobile, Alabama. On Saturday, the Africatown Heritage The post ‘Clotilda: The Exhibition’ chronicles America’s ...
Leusden, Dutch West Indies Company slave ship wrecked in 1738 at the mouth of the Maroni river in Surinam where the crew killed nearly 700 African slaves. Liver, a British ship, launched in 1786 as a smack, and expanded in 1790 to become a slave ship. She was captured in 1797 after making five voyages.
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