More than 100 of these unfortunate souls were bundled into the hold of a ship called the Clotilda, forced on a perilous journey to the United States and unloaded, traumatized and emaciated ...

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 conceal their trip. The slave trade ...

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 ...