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, engineers and ...

After travelling to what is now Benin, the ship returned to the city of Mobile in Alabama, illegally carrying 110 people in bondage. To erase the evidence of his crime, Meaher had the schooner ...

The last known US 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, engineers ...

The intriguing captain’s report of an 18th-century Portuguese slave ship foundering within sight of Cape Town helped Boshoff and his colleagues narrow the search effort—in collaboration with ...

Last known intact US slave ship is too ‘broken’ and should stay underwater, report recommends By Associated Press Published Aug. 10, 2024, 3:41 a.m. ET ...

Crawford and her family are the descendants of an enslaved man brought illegally to the U.S. on the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to arrive in the U.S.

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 ...

Hunting slave ships was a cat-and-mouse game. They tended to be faster than the Royal Navy’s ponderous craft, and the navy never supplied enough warships to monitor the entire coast.

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 ...

Marine archaeologists have discovered that two shipwrecks in Costa Rica that were previously believed to be pirate ships are 18th-Century Danish slave ships that have been missing for centuries.

What: A Slave Ship Speaks: The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie Where: Mel Fisher Maritime Museum, 200 Greene Street, Key West, FL 33040. When: The museum is open 7 days a week. Ticket information here.

In Mobile, a slave ship's secret history and the criminal conspiracy that hid it for 159 years For generations, many felt the tale was too dangerous to tell aloud.