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4 sty 2024 · The legend of The Clotilda, the last-known U.S. slave ship, shaped Africatown long before “Clotilda: The Exhibition” opened in Mobile, Alabama’s Africatown Heritage House this past summer.
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.
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.
This website aims to summarize plantation-related data in a way that allows the genealogist to better visualize the lives of our enslaved ancestors within a historical context… Was the slave buyer a relative of the seller? Did the buyer relocate? Were plantations connected by slave holder marriages?
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.
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.
The images in Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora have been selected from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery before c. 1900. Our growing collection currently has over 1,200 images.
