![]() WHEREAS, a group of Africans who survived Clotilda's sinister act of piracy and five and one-half years of slavery at various plantations came together after the U.S. WHEREAS, The Clotilda slave ship was burned and sunk in the Mobile River Delta near Twelve Mile Island immediately upon its return to conceal evidence of the enslavers' crimes against the federal ban on importing people from Africa into the United States to be enslaved and WHEREAS, The Clotilda schooner was chartered by plantation owner and notorious slaver Timothy Meaher, sailing in 1860 from present-day Mobile County, Alabama, to the Kingdom of Dahomey in the present-day country of Benin to purchase and return with a shipment of enslaved Africans to make what became the last documented voyage in more than four centuries of the Transatlantic Slave Trade to North America from the African continent and ![]() ![]() Topic Commemorative & Memorial Year 2022 Print
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