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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 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 ...
Matilda McCrear (c. 1857 – January 13, 1940), born Àbáké, was the last known survivor in the United States of the transatlantic slave trade and the ship Clotilda.She was a Yoruba who was captured and brought to Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama at the age of two with her mother and older sister.
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 ...