Mobile Public Library Digital Collections

Mobile Public Library Local History & Genealogy Library

The Local History and Genealogy Library is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and providing access to the history of Mobile, and the greater Gulf Coast region.

Browse Items (29 total)

Item 3 Digging the Clotilda.pdf
Newspaper article on the Clotilda and Africatown

Item 38 Historic Sketches of the South.pdf
Book excerpt from Emma Langdon Roche's Historic Sketches of the South

Last slave ship sunk.pdf
Newspaper article on the Clotilda

Foster Narrative.pdf
Account of the Clotilda by Captain William FosterTranscription of Capt. Foster’s account of the Clotilda voyage and notes accompanying it (with suggestions in [italics]), by Valerie Ellis, Local History and Genealogy, Mobile Public Library:Mr.…

Item 43.pdf
Newspaper article on the Clotilda and its aftermath

Item 28 Meaher.pdf
Letter concerning people brought as slaves on the Clotilda

Wordberry Final.pdf
Letter concerning the Clotilda and the people it brought as slaves

Mobilian Tells of This City in Civil War Days.pdf
Newspaper article on Civil War-era South

Museum of Mobile's exhibit details slave trade Aug. 5 2007 Mobile County Neighbors 1, 6.pdf
Newspaper article on transatlantic slave trade exhibit
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