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A museum that tells the history of the Clotilda - the last ship known to transport Africans to the American South for enslavement - opened Saturday, exactly 163 years after the vessel arrived in Alabama's Mobile Bay.

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — A museum that tells the history of the Clotilda — the last ship known to transport Africans to the American South for enslavement — opened Saturday,

A new museum Alabama tells the history of the Clotilda — the last ship known to transport Africans to the American South for enslavement. The $1.3 million Africatown Heritage House

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — A museum that tells the history of the Clotilda — the last ship known to transport Africans to the American South for enslavement — opened…

A new museum Alabama tells the history of the Clotilda — the last ship known to transport Africans to the American South for enslavement. The $1.3 million Africatown Heritage House

A new museum Alabama tells the history of the Clotilda — the last ship known to transport Africans to the American South for enslavement. The $1.3 million Africatown Heritage House

The Clotilda departed Alabama in 1860, more than 50 years after Congress outlawed the importation of additional enslaved people.

Aboard the Perdido Queen, News 5 went on an adventure to get an exclusive look at the site where the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to arrive in the U.S., landed 163 years ago.

The exhibition opens on the 163rd anniversary of the 110 Africans’ arrival in Mobile, Alabama. On Saturday, the Africatown Heritage […] The post ‘Clotilda: The Exhibition’ chronicles America’s last known ship carrying enslaved people appeared first on TheGrio.