Perdido Queen News Today

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.

Clotilda survivors’ descendants to Mobile: Include us in sharing Africatown’s story with world Updated Dec 19, 2020; Africatown represents a “gold mine” for Mobile when it comes to tourism and luring visitors to the city and the historic area north of downtown where a community was developed by the survivors of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to arrive in North America. But some concerns are arising in the Africatown community over maintaining communication with a variety of communit...