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  2. Clotilda (slave ship) - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Timothy Meaher - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Redoshi - Wikipedia

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    Her village was attacked in a raid by warriors of the Kingdom of Dahomey, who killed her father (possibly a village leader) [4] and took her captive at about age 12, around 1860. They sold her to the American captain of the illegal slave ship Clotilda. She was forced to marry another captive, a man also from West Africa who was already married ...

  5. New museum in Alabama tells history of last known slave ship ...

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    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.

  6. Research: Wreck of last U.S. slave ship mostly intact on ...

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    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 ...

  7. The last known intact US slave ship is too 'broken' and ... - AOL

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    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 ...

  8. Africatown - Wikipedia

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    They used Timothy Meaher's ship Clotilda, which had been designed for the lumber trade. It was commanded by Captain William Foster. While the ship was in port at Whydah in the Kingdom of Dahomey (present-day port of Ouidah in Benin), additional work was done to accommodate and conceal the transport of enslaved people. Foster bought the slaves ...

  9. The last American slave ship lies 20 feet underwater. Its ...

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    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 ...