The Alabama Historical Commission, which has been involved in efforts to identify and preserve the Clotilda since 1997, said it cannot be raised from underwater “using existing technology.” (Courtesy ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Clotilda, the last known U.S. slave ship, arrived in Mobile, Alabama, in 1860 with 110 enslaved people. Travel journalist ...

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 ...

for the descendants of slaves in America. It can be difficult to trace one's family history, but now researchers who were investigating the last known slave ship to ever arrive in the US, the Clotilde ...

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 ...

Researchers working in the murky waters of the northern Gulf Coast have located the wreck of the last ship known to bring enslaved people from Africa to the United States, historical officials said ...

The $1.3 million Africatown Heritage House and “Clotilda: The Exhibition” opened Saturday, exactly 163 years after the ship arrived in Mobile Bay The $1.3 million Africatown Heritage House and ...