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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.

Clotilda Collection

Title

Clotilda Collection

Description

Digital reproduction of the Clotilda archival collection, also including items from the Clotilda and Africatown vertical files.

Publisher

Mobile Public Library, Local History & Genealogy

Rights

This file may be freely used for educational uses as long as it is not altered in any way. No commercial reproduction or distribution of this file is permitted without written permission from this institution.

Language

English

Type

text, still image

Identifier

files-clotilda

Collection Items

Abache and Kazoola
Image of Abache and Cudjo Lewis

Abache
Image of Abache

Cudjo Lewis
Image of Cudjo Lewis

Cudjo Lewis
Image of Cudjo Lewis

Charlee
Image of "Uncle Charlee," who was brought on the Clotilda

Last Slaver from U.S. to Africa. A.D. 1860
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.…

The Slave Trade
Newspaper article from The Mobile Daily Register, Nov. 9, 1858, p. 2 column 1.

Captain Tim Meaher
Image of Captain Tim Meaher

Captain William Foster
Image of Captain William Foster

Capt. Wm. Foster. Commander of Last American Slave Vessel Buried Yesterday
Newspaper article on the burial of Clotilda captain William Foster
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