The small west African nation of Benin last year enacted a law granting citizenship to descendants of enslaved people to acknowledge the country’s complicity in the transatlantic slave trade, and ...

Alabama funded a $1 million investigation to see if the Clotilda, the last known slave ship in the US, can be excavated from the Mobile River. The ship’s captain, Willam Foster, traveled to West ...

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — The last known U.S. slave ship is too “broken” and decayed to be extracted from the murky waters of the Alabama Gulf Coast without being dismembered, a task force of archaeologists ...

Years of research and a particularly strong winter storm has led a reporter in Alabama to what is likely the remains of the last ship to carry slave cargo from Africa to the United States. Writer Ben ...

The new National Geographic documentary Clotilda: Last American Slave Ship is scheduled to premiere Monday, June 17 at 8/7c. During Clotilda: Last American Slave Ship, archaeologists explore the ...

The ship is “too broken” and “too decayed” to be evacuated, archaeologists say. The task force headed by the Alabama Historical Commission determined that the Clotilda, the last ship known to ...

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, Alabama, for a memorial ceremony. Attendees, many of them ...

In July 1860, just a few days after Americans celebrated the country’s independence, a schooner slipped into Alabama’s Mobile Bay, carrying 110 captives. Their first exposure to the land of the free ...

Hannah Durkin’s fine book, “The Survivors of the Clotilda,” folds a century of research and a multitude of human lives into a story that, in some ways, comes down to a single remark. Durkin recounts ...