Last Known Slave Ship Clotilda Found

[Anita]

"The schooner Clotilda—the last known ship to bring enslaved Africans to America’s shores—has been discovered in a remote arm of Alabama’s Mobile River following an intensive yearlong search by marine archaeologists."
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/cultu...n-alabama/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsoni...180972177/

[LincolnMan]

Interesting story. Thanks Anita!

[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.

[Anita]

(05-27-2019 09:21 AM)David Lockmiller Wrote:  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.

It is remarkable they were able to pool resources in 1866, buy land and set up a tribal community government. Hope the plans for keeping the Clotilda in Africatown work out and visitors energize the local economy.