Beneath Alabama’s Mobile River rests a relic of American history: the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to reach U.S.

While slave owners plied enslaved people with meals and downtime to prevent rebellions, many used this respite for escapes or ...

No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private companies than Alabama. With a ...

but many slave owners in the South like Meaher continued it for years. After the Civil War, Africans brought on Meaher's covert trip would go on to found Africatown, Alabama, where many of their ...

It is a historically rich site that physically connects centuries of the transatlantic slave trade to the people it enslaved. And now the Alabama Historical ... his family’s history from his ...

In Alabama lawyers are working with prisoners to end the practice of slavery for incarcerated people in that state. We talk with CJ Sandley, a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional ...

Matilda died in Selma, Alabama, in January 1940 ... with the still raw history of slavery remaining a difficult and dangerous topic, there were no obituaries - and no recognition.

The wreck of the last known US slave ship should remain under water ... The Clotilda was rediscovered in 2019 in the Mobile river, Alabama, 159 years after it was intentionally sunk in 1860 ...