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 ...

Keys to the past and the future of a community descended from enslaved Africans lie in a river bottom on Alabama's Gulf Coast, where the remains of the last known U.S. slave ship rest a few miles from ...

A shipwreck off the coast of Alabama is not a famous slave ship after all. The Alabama Historical Commission says the ship is too new and too large to be the Clotilda, which was the last known vessel ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1860 on the eve of the American Civil War and 52 years after the international slave trade was outlawed in the U.S., 110 African men, women, and children arrived on the shores of Alabama in a ship ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The day has finally come for the official unveiling of a local museum highlighting an important part of African American history. Friday was a celebration for the city of Mobile.