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 ...

A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecks—and reconnecting Black communities to the deep.

They were two of the 110 enslaved survivors aboard the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to bring Africans to the Americas on 8 July 1860. They arrived in my hometown of Mobile, Alabama ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The Alabama Historical Commission has released potential preservation plans for the Clotilda, the last ...

In May 2019, the news that archaeologists had discovered the wreck of the Clotilda – the last recorded slave ship to arrive in the United States, fifty-two years after the international slave trade ...

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 project gained renewed interest in 2019 when researchers confirmed that a shipwreck upriver from Mobile were the remains of the slave ship Clotilda. The ship had been burned by its owner ...

Upon arrival, the captives were offloaded and the Clotilda was burned in an attempt to hide the crime. Rumors of the ship's existence lingered until 2019, when the ship was finally discovered in ...

This new documentary special is about the most intact slave shipwreck found to date and the only one for which we know the full story of the voyage, the passengers and their descendants.

and “Descendant,” an award-winning project that drew new attention to the story of the slave ship Clotilda and the Africatown community. This will be her first time directing a series and her ...