2025 Winter Showcase Series: The Last Slave Ship

As part of the 2025 Winter Showcase Series presented by Gulf Shores & Orange Beach Tourism, please join us for Ben Raines's presentation, The Last Slave Ship.

Fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed, the Clotilda became the last ship in history to bring enslaved Africans to the United States. The ship was scuttled and burned on arrival to hide evidence of the crime, allowing the wealthy perpetrators to escape prosecution. Despite numerous efforts to find the sunken wreck, Clotilda remained hidden for the next 160 years. However, in 2019, journalist Ben Raines made international news when he successfully concluded his obsessive quest through the swamps of Alabama to uncover one of our nation’s most important historical artifacts.

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