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Clotilda

British  
/ kləˈtɪldə /

noun

  1. ?475–?545 ad , wife of Clovis I of the Franks, whom she converted (496) to Christianity

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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