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Send us Fan MailIn 1860—more than half a century after the importation of enslaved people into the United States became illegal—the schooner Clotilda sailed past Dauphin Island and entered Mobile Bay carrying approximately 108 or 109 surviving African captives.Alabama businessman Timothy Meaher had financed the illegal expedition, and Captain William Foster had sailed the Clotilda to Ouidah on the West African coast. There, Foster purchased 110 people who had been captured during raids conducted by the Kingdom of Dahomey.After surviving the Middle Passage, the captives were secretly transported into the Mobile-Tensaw Delta. The Clotildawas then burned and sunk in Bayou Canot in an attempt to destroy the evidence. Although federal authorities investigated, none of the men responsible was convicted.The people carried aboard the Clotilda, however, survived. Following emancipation, many attempted to raise enough money to return to Africa. When that proved impossible—and when Meaher refused to give them land—they pooled their earnings, purchased land themselves, and established a community of their own: African Town, now known as Africatown.In this episode of Dauphin Island Diaries, Big John Summers explores the forces that gave rise to the Atlantic slave trade, Timothy Meaher’s illegal wager, the voyage of the Clotilda, the experiences of the people imprisoned aboard it, the failure of federal prosecution, the establishment of Africatown, and the discovery and identification of the ship’s wreckage more than a century and a half later.PLACES TO VISITAfricatown Heritage HouseClotilda: The Exhibition2465 Winbush StreetMobile, Alabama 36610https://clotilda.com/Old Plateau Cemetery—also known as the Africatown Graveyard—is located on Bay Bridge Road Cutoff in Africatown. Several Clotilda survivors and generations of their descendants are buried there.The new Africatown Welcome Center, located across Bay Bridge Road Cutoff from the cemetery, was still under construction when this episode was recorded in September 2026.SELECTED SOURCESAfricatown: America’s Last Slave Ship and the Community It CreatedNick TaborBarracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”Zora Neale Hurston, edited by Deborah G. PlantClotilda: The History and Archaeology of the Last Slave ShipJames P. Delgado, Deborah E. Marx, Kyle Lent, Joseph Grinnan, and Alexander DeCaroDreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to AmericaSylviane A. DioufThe Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave TradeHannah DurkinAfricatown English: Early History and DevelopmentsLeah NodarADDITIONAL RESOURCESAfricatown Heritage Preservation Foundationhttps://africatownhpf.org/Africatown, Alabama — The Architectural League of New Yorkhttps://archleague.org/article/africatown-intro/Alabama Historical Commissionhttps://ahc.alabama.gov/CONTACT THE PODCASTEmail Big John Summers:john.summers@summersmediaenterprises.com🔗 Links🧢 Merch & Apparel:https://www.summersmediaenterprises.com/merch🏝️ Visit Dauphin Island Diaries:https://www.summersmediaenterprises.com/podcasts/did🎧 Visit The Tennessee History Nerd:https://www.summersmediaenterprises.com/podcasts/tthn📘 Follow on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/DauphinIslandDiariesMake sure you’re following Dauphin Island Diaries in your podcast app. Just tap the Follow button, and every new episode will be waiting for you when it is released. Dauphin Island Diaries will be taking a brief break from regular episodes during October. .I’ll also have something short for you here in the feed on Tuesday, October 6 and then DID returns with a full-length narrative episode on Tuesday, November 3. When *Dauphin Island Diaries* returns on November 3, we’ll be moving to a new release schedule. Full-length narrative episodes will arrive on the first Tuesday of every month, and whenever there's a fifth Tuesday, it will be Interviewsday. If you enjoy Dauphin Island Diaries and would like to help keep these stories coming, you can support the show by subscribing to our Facebook page...for just ninety-nine cents a month! Please think of just one person who loves Dauphin Island, Mobile Bay, or Gulf Coast history as much as you do—and then send that person this episode!If you enjoyed this episode, follow the show, share it with someone who loves history, and leave a review—it helps more folks discover the stories of Dauphin Island, Mobile Bay, and the Gulf Coast.
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