MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The Africatown Heritage House will be opening for the first time ever on Saturday with an extension of the house called “Clotilda: The Exhibition.” This is the first look into ...

As the long-awaited opening date of Mobile’s Africatown Heritage House approaches, backers have released new details of the opening and the Clotilda exhibition it will house. Among other significant ...

The Clotilda, the last known U.S. slave ship, arrived in Mobile, Alabama, in 1860 with 110 enslaved people. Travel journalist Natalie Preddie visits and reports on the opening of "Clotilda: The ...

A first-of-its-kind museum dedicated to the Clotilda - the last known slave ship - and its 110 survivors will officially open on Saturday, 163 years to the date that the vessel arrived into Mobile Bay ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - People in Africatown are reflecting today about the opening of Clotilda: The Exhibition in their neighborhood. They say the new addition will finally give Africatown the ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Officials with the History Museum of Mobile have announced they will be hosting CLOTILDA: THE EXHIBITION at the Africatown Heritage House in July. July 8th marks 163 years since ...

MOBILE, Ala. -- The City of Mobile is just days away from the opening of the Africatown Heritage House. There, you'll be able to experience the history of the Clotilda Slave Ship. Africatown is a ...

On Saturday, the Africatown Heritage House in Mobile, Alabama, will open an exhibit that chronicles the journey and aftermath of the last known ship carrying enslaved people to America. “Clotilda: The ...

The Mobile History Museum is filled with historical displays and interesting information on the history of Mobile and th ...

The last known U.S. slave ship is too "broken" and decayed to be extracted from the murky waters of the Alabama Gulf Coast without being dismembered, a task force of archaeologists, engineers and ...

AfricaTown holds great historical significance as one of the nation’s oldest African-American neighborhoods. It’s credited as being one of the first places where freed slaves from Africa settled in ...

More than 160 years ago, a schooner carrying illegal human cargo sailed into Mobile Bay. It was a half-century after the importation of slaves had been outlawed in the U.S. Still, in the dark of night ...