Boasting his intention to dodge the U.S. Navy’s enforcement of the hated ban, Meaher partners with William Foster, a shipwright who captains his beautifully crafted schooner, the Clotilda. The pair ...
ATLANTA — Historians hope a new Web database will help bring millions of blacks closer to their African ancestors who were forced onto slave ships, connecting them to their heritage in a way that has ...
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — 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 ...
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 and ...
HOUSTON -- While ships like the Mayflower, Titanic, and Santa Maria are commonly remembered, few can name even one of the estimated 12,000 vessels that carried enslaved Africans across the Middle ...
In July 1860, just a few days after Americans celebrated the country’s independence, a schooner slipped into Alabama’s Mobile Bay, carrying 110 captives. Their first exposure to the land of the free ...
In 2019 we began reporting on the discovery of the Clotilda - a sunken slave ship found in the bottom of an Alabama river. The Clotilda was the last ship known to have brought captured Africans to ...
Engraving shows the arrival of a Dutch slave ship with a group of African slaves for sale, Jamestown, Virginia, 1619. The Dutch government reportedly plans to apologize for its role in the slave trade ...
On the way down I saw nothing. The water was a blur of teal fringed with rusty shadows, darkening, about twenty feet below, to a sickly emerald. I followed a rope strung between a buoy and a stake in ...
Alabama funded a $1 million investigation to see if the Clotilda, the last known slave ship in the US, can be excavated from the Mobile River. The ship’s captain, Willam Foster, traveled to West ...
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — 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 ...
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