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27 mar 2020 · Photograph Courtesy of John Crear. By Sylviane A. Diouf, PhD. March 27, 2020. • 15 min read. She was just two years old when she arrived in Mobile, Alabama, in July 1860, a captive aboard the...
Just north of downtown Mobile, in the muddy banks of the Mobile River, lies the wreckage of the schooner Clotilda, the last known slave ship to enter the United States. Under the cover of night in the summer of 1860, a ship carrying 110 African captives slipped into Mobile Bay.
20 cze 2019 · Here are stories from descendants of some who arrived in Mobile and from some current residents in Africatown, located three miles north of downtown Mobile, which had been formed by a group of 32 West Africans, who in 1860 were part of the last known illegal cargo of slaves to the United States.
17 lip 2023 · In July 1860, the Clotilda, sailed into Alabama’s Mobile Bay under the cover of darkness. On board, 110 enslaved men, women and children taken from West Africa awaited their fate.
21 sie 2024 · Africatown (also spelled AfricaTown and African Town) is a small Mobile neighborhood established by many of the people who arrived on the Clotilda, the last documented slave ship to reach the United States.
21 maj 2018 · An aerial photo taken Tuesday, January 2, 2018, in Mobile, Alabama, of what was thought to be the Clotilda, the last slave ship documented to have delivered captive Africans to the United States.
Take a journey along the Mobile River where you will hear stories of captives on the schooner, Clotilda, who were illegally carried through the same waters more than 160 years ago bringing in the last shipment of enslaved humans to land on America’s shores.
