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 ...

In Alabama's Mobile Bay, a local newspaper reporter discovered what historians believe is probably the last slave ship to land in America, the Clotilda. The wreckage, normally covered by water, was ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — 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, ...

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 ...

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 last voyage of the Clotilda, from Benin to Mobile Bay “represented one of the darkest eras of modern history,” Lisa Demetropoulos Jones, the commission’s executive director, said in a statement.

The state of Alabama will provide artifacts from the last slave ship to dock in the United States for a special public exhibition later this year, officials said Tuesday. The Alabama Historical ...

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 ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Thursday kicked off the first day of the annual Landing Event and Ancestor Festival in Mobile, also known as LEAF. LEAF will feature a line-up of events over the next four days ...