Technically, it was researcher Ben Raines who discovered the remains of the Clotilda at the depths of a river in Alabama's Mobile-Tensaw Delta in 2019. But as Kern Jackson relays it, the community of ...

One of the best films of the year, Margaret Brown’s “Descendant” is, strictly speaking, about the discovery of the Clotilda, the last known slave ship. After it was used to illegally kidnap and ...

Naval warfare is rich with dramatic episodes. One such that deserves to be much better known is the campaign waged by England in the early 19th century against African slavery. Among the contestants ...

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 ...

Descendants of the last African people abducted into slavery and brought to America’s shores gathered over the weekend on the banks of an Alabama river to pay tribute to their ancestors. The ...