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)

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

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

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

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

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.…

Last slave ship sunk.pdf
Newspaper article on the Clotilda

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

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

Item 40 Real.pdf
Newspaper articles on Capt. Meaher's death and various information about Dahomey
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