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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]
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 ...
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 ...
In 2019, journalist Ben Raines helped find the Clotilda. He discusses his book, "The Last Slave Ship," and the triumph and tragedy of its descendants. The last American slave ship lies 20 feet ...
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 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 rather than oak. [4] A later survey determined the ship to be constructed of Douglas fir, suggesting it was built on the Pacific coast and sailed around South America to Mobile ...