Clotilda
Britishnoun
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There's also Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade by Hannah Durkin, an immersive and revelatory history of the survivors of the Clotilda, the last ship of the Atlantic slave trade.
From BBC
MOBILE, Ala. — A museum that tells the history of the Clotilda - the last ship known to transport Africans to the American South for enslavement - opened Saturday, exactly 163 years after the vessel arrived in Alabama’s Mobile Bay.
From Washington Times
The Clotilda illegally transported 110 captive people from what is now the west African nation of Benin to Alabama.
From Seattle Times
Most of Clotilda didn’t burn, and much of the ship is still in the Mobile River, which empties into Mobile Bay.
From Seattle Times
Other ship survivors are highlighted, including Matlida McCrear, who died in 1940 in Selma, Alabama, and was the Clotilda’s last known survivor.
From Seattle Times
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