On July 8, 1860, 110 kidnapped West Africans were offloaded from the ‘Clotilda’ in Alabama’s Mobile River. ‘Clotilda’ sailed in 52 years after the international trade in human beings was outlawed in ...
More than 160 years ago, 110 West African captives were smuggled up Alabama’s Mobile River aboard the Clotilda, the last slave ship on record carrying enslaved people to America. After extensive ...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Researchers studying the wreckage of the last U.S. slave ship on the Alabama coast have made a surprising discovery. A recently released report shows that most of the wooden ...
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, Alabama, for a memorial ceremony. Attendees, many of them ...
The find, historians said, revives a story of unspeakable cruelty but also the story of a people who somehow survived this indignity and many others like it. There was a discovery last year of ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- If you're in the market for a new podcast, you'll want to check out "Into the Depths" from our partners at National Geographic. The six-part podcast premiering Thursday follows a team ...
On a rainy Juneteenth, visitors flocked to the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History to come together for day of joyful celebration and reflection in one of the nation's largest ...
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