We recently posted the story of the Clotilda, a co...  ...posted the story of the Clotilda, a commissioned ship that imported enslaved people from Africa in 1860...  ...enin, his capture and voyage on the Clotilda, the slavery years, and how he built a life in America after t...  ...ontemporaries — and aut...

Although slavery continued in the United States until the end of t...  ...ntil the end of the Civil War, the importation of slaves from Africa was banned in 1807. By the 1850s, the...  ...bama, businessman Timothy Meaher commissioned the ship Clotilda, captained by William Foste...