Last Known Slave Ship Clotilda Found

[David Lockmiller]

There is a story in today's (May 27) New York Times about the Clotilda.

'Ship of Horror': Discovery of the Last Slave Ship to America Brings New Hope to an Old Community

One of the interesting paragraphs within the story is this:

Many of the men and women left on the shore by Mr. Foster [the captain of the schooner] had hoped to return to Africa at the end of the Civil War, but their plans proved unworkable and they found themselves stuck. So they established Africatown, their own American settlement, in either 1866 or 1868.