In 1860, Timothy Meaher with Captain William Foster illegally carried over a hundred enslaved Africans on the Clotilda then wrecked and abandoned the ship to ... would go on to found Africatown ...

A newspaper article found in a Massachusetts library showed the vessel ... He helped identify the remains of the last known U.S. slave ship, Clotilda, just north of Mobile, Alabama, in 2019.

African American church leaders are speaking out over budget cuts being proposed by the Trump White House. The Smithsonian ...

An Alabama Port Authority railroad project that generated concern in Mobile’s Africatown community has passed a review by the ...

Saturday, April 12 will mark the 160th anniversary of my ancestors learning about their freedom. On April 12, 1865, union ...

The last known slave ship to travel to the United States is too “broken” to be pulled from the murky waters of the Alabama Gulf Coast and should stay underwater to preserve the “crime scene ...

I’m finding out people in my community knew things, but they were probably trying to protect me, because talking about Clotilda was a crime [for many years]. Since they found the ship ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — A plaque unveiling on Saturday recognized Lewis Quarters, 7 acres purchased by survivors of the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to arrive in the U.S. During a ceremony ...