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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 ...
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 ...
Cudjoe Kazoola Lewis (c. 1841 – July 17, 1935), born Oluale Kossola, [1] and also known as Cudjo Lewis, was the third-to-last adult survivor of the Atlantic slave trade between Africa and the United States. [a] Together with 115 other African captives, he was brought to the United States on board the ship Clotilda in 1860. [3]
The last ship known to smuggle slaves from Africa to the United States has been discovered in Alabama's Mobile River, nearly 160 years after it was deliberately sunk, a historical commission said ...
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 ...
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 ...
Africatown Heritage House is a community building in Mobile, Alabama that houses "Clotilda: The Exhibition" about the survivors and descendants of slaves transported on the Clotilda, the United States' last known slave ship, many of whom established Africatown.