THINGS I'VE LEARNED . . .

Things I've leaned and I don't know why.

The schooner Clotilda was the last known ship to bring captive slaves from western Africa to the United States.  It landed in 1859 near Mobile Bay (AL) carrying 110 men, women and children.  The Clotilda was a two-masted sailing ship, 86 ft long with 23 feet beam (wide).  It's hull was copper-sheathed - the ship was made for the lumber business.  Slaving was already illegal.

The US Civil War followed soon after it's arrival.  The freed slaves stayed in Alabama and created a city near where they landed called Africatown.  There, they continued with the lifestyle they had been taught in Africa.  The community still exists.  

Now you know, too.