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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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His interviews in the 1920s provided information about the Clotilda and its passengers to historians and scholars.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 9, 2023

Black history is gaining more attention with books about, for instance, the Tulsa massacre and the slave ship Clotilda, but books like yours and Clint Smith’s “How the Word Is Passed” take a broader approach.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2023

On that journey, Hurston interviewed Cudjo Lewis, then the oldest living formerly enslaved man who had been abducted on the Clotilda ship, the last slave ship to the United States.

From Washington Post • Jan. 17, 2023

Then the ship, christened the Clotilda, was set on fire.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2022

Fie! cried Victor's whole soul, now I see for the first time all the prickles of the crown of thorns which they are pressing upon thy heart, thou poor Clotilda!

From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography by Jean Paul