This is because of a high risk of deterioration if the Clotilda is excavated. If the ship were pulled out of the Mobile River ...

Alabama, where many of their descendants still live today. Remains of the Clotilda were found in Alabama's Mobile River in 2019.

A task force led by Alabama Historical Commission reported last year that the ship was too “broken” and decayed to be extracted from the murky waters of the Mobile River. The Clotilda’s ...

Rumors of the ship's existence lingered until 2019, when the ship was finally discovered in the Mobile River. Now, artifacts from the Clotilda are on display at the newly opened Africatown ...