Archaeologists hope to unearth valuable information about the enslaved Africans from Clotilda’s last passage—and have already found evidence of its criminal sinking. Timbers from the stern of Clotilda ...

St. Augustine is one of the most haunted towns in America, thanks to a jail built by Henry Flagler in 1891. The Old Jail, as ...

Historian Hannah Durkin has won the £50,000 Wolfson History Prize for her book Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade (William Collins).

The schooner Clotilda smuggled African captives into the U.S. in 1860, more than 50 years after importing slaves was outlawed. A mural of the Clotilda adorns a concrete embankment in Africatown, a ...

In July 1860, just a few days after Americans celebrated the country’s independence, a schooner slipped into Alabama’s Mobile Bay, carrying 110 captives. Their first exposure to the land of the free ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Thursday kicked off the first day of the annual Landing Event and Ancestor Festival in Mobile, also known as LEAF. LEAF will feature a line-up of events over the next four days ...

For the Africatown community and its supporters, the July 4 weekend promises to be a blockbuster: The Clotilda Descendants Association has combined its two biggest events into one multi-day ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The annual Landing Event & Ancestor Festival, hosted by the Clotilda Descendants Association, will be taking place from July 3 through July 6, according to a news release. LEAF ...

The Clotilda isn’t the most important part of the Clotilda story. That’s not to say Alabama shouldn’t do everything in its power to preserve the rotting remains of that ship, the last known to have ...

The sun sets over Mobile Bay in this undated photo. The Clotilda, the last ship known to have carried enslaved men and women into the United States, left Mobile in early 1860 and arrived later that ...