New museum in Alabama tells history of last known slave ship to US and its survivors

A museum that tells the history of the Clotilda — the last ship known to have transported Africans to the American South for enslavement — opened over the weekend, 163 years after the vessel arrived in Alabama's Mobile Bay. Ceremonies dedicating the $1.3 million Africatown Heritage House and “Clotilda: The Exhibition” took place Friday and Saturday in Mobile. The exhibit tells about the ship, its survivors and how they founded Africatown community in Mobile after they were freed from five years of slavery following the Civil War. The Clotilda departed...