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 (13 total)

Item 1 African Dreams.pdf
Book review of Sylviane Diouf's book, Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Last Africans Brought to America

Item 11 The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Making of AfricaTown,USA.pdf
Book review of Natalie S. Robertson's book, The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Making of AfricaTown, USA

Story of last U.S. slave ship.pdf
Newspaper article on the Clotilda

Item 26 and 27 Researching a Legend.pdf
Journal article on the Clotilda

Last Cargo of Slaves Note.pdf
Mobile Public Library note on the Clotilda

Item 33 The Author and Africatown.pdf
Book review of Emma Langdon Roche's Historic Sketches of the South

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

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

clotilda 4.jpg
Photograph of the wreck of the Clotilda north of Chicabogue, as cited in Emma lnagdon Roche's "Historic Sketches of the South"
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