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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.
11 paź 2023 · 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.
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.
7 lut 2020 · Tour guide Eric Finley explains the history of the slave market in Mobile, Alabama.
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.
Mobile was a Southern port that imported slaves from 1721 until the last illegal slave ship smuggled slaves into Mobile Bay in 1860. The history of slavery in Mobile is detailed in our permanent exhibit, Old Days, New Ways: The Story of Mobile.
