Nation May 23 Watch 4:44 How discovery of the slave ship Clotilda informs U.S. history The remains of the last slave ship that came to America have been found. In 1860, the schooner Clotilda brought 110 Africans to U.S. shores, decades after it was illegal to import slaves into the country. The wreckage of the… By Megan Thompson
Nation Apr 13 Watch 9:38 The hunt is on for the last slave ship to arrive in the U.S. Archaeologists are analyzing data from a survey of Alabama’s Mobile River, looking for the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to arrive in America. The ship's survivors were enslaved for a few years before forming a unique community, Africatown. Clotilda… By Megan Thompson, Mori Rothman