Beneath Alabama’s Mobile River rests a relic of American history: the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to reach U.S. shores. Illegally smuggling 110 enslaved Africans in 1860, decades after ...

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 ...

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

Remains of the Gulf schooner Clotilda were identified and verified near Mobile after months of assessment, a statement by the Alabama Historical ... darkest eras of modern history," and the wreck ...

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 ...

The ship's journey "represented one of the darkest eras of modern history ... from Benin to Alabama in 1860, according to historians. "It's the best documented story of a slave voyage in the ...

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 ...

MADISON, Ala. (WHNT) — The annual Jubilee Day Celebration is recognized in North Alabama. The celebration commemorates the ...