The Clotilda
In 2019, researchers were able to properly authenticate the last known slave ship to enter the United States illegally. That ship, The Clotida, was found in the Mobile River in Southern Alabama.
A slave trader named Timothy Meaher arranged with a king in an African nation to purchase one hundred slaves and transport them to Alabama. With treacherous conditions and little food, those who survived would be enslaved until the formal emancipation efforts commenced. While emancipation meant freedom on paper, freed slaves quickly learned that their efforts were best served creating their own community called Africatown.
In this episode of Black History In Two Minutes or So hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr., with additional commentary from Imani Perry of Princeton University, we take a look at an important piece of history that tells the story of the last known slave ship to enter the United States.
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• Associated Press
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Additional Archival by:
• Mobile Public Library Digital Collections
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Executive Producers:
• Robert F. Smith
• Henry Louis Gates Jr.
• Dyllan McGee
• Deon Taylor
Senior Producer:
• William Ventura
Series Producers:
• Chinisha Scott
• William Ventura
Executive in Charge of Production:
• Robert L. Yacyshyn
Post Production Supervisor:
• Veronica Leib
Post Production Coordinator:
• Katherine Swiatek
Written By:
• Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Additional Writing:
• Kevin Burke
• Kelsi Lindus
• Chinisha Scott
• William Ventura
Editors:
• Margaret Metzger
• Anne Yao
Producer:
• Kevin Burke
Archival Producer:
• Megan Graham
Research:
• Zoë Smith
Assistant Editors:
• Patrice Bowman
• Nicholas Mastrangelo
Director of Photography:
• Nikki Bramley
• Nausheen Dadabhoy
• Stephen McCarthy
Graphic Design:
• Anthony Kraus
Special Thanks:
• Daina Ramey Berry
• Sam Hartley
• Elyssa Hess
• Stacey Holman
• Hasan Jeffries
• Peniel Joseph
• Imani Perry
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I am a black female, a native of Southeast Mississippi having recently moved back south. Ive been driving from Biloxi, MS to Pensacola across the Mobile Bay bridge for nearly 7 years. Since learning of this absurd discovery from the past, I am always looking for the bank of that day at five past year all of the beautiful souls of my people that were kidnapped & illegally brought to the U.S with the intent to exploit a abuse them. I get so teary every time I cross this inlet
@noahstringer
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its sickening that the maher family kept, and still have, the only private property for MILES, within feet from where the ships remains were found. no one can convince me that family was unaware there was a sunken ship feet away from their river cabin. That family has more land in the area than you would ever imagine. Chippewa Lakes LLC. The damn state park on causeway is named after that family, its disgusting
Thank you 🙏🏾. I visited Africatown for the first time today (Juneteenth).
Thank you for such an informative video. I am taking a class on American Slavery and this is a great insight into the personal dynamics of the entire thing.
Matilda McCrear (my great grandmother) was on the Cotilda slave ship. She 2 years old at the time.
Everyone should know abt Mobile Alabama bc of this historical fact alone
Omgawdd this is so darn sad..To imagine what my people endured on that ship makes me want to throw up..How dare you America..How dare you***😢
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