DONATE TO PRESERVE THE CLOTILDA: Clotilda Descendants Association
BOOKS (Click on links to order)
- “The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning” by Ben Raines (BCCLS; eBook: Libby/Overdrive; eAudiobook: Libby/Overdrive)
- “Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage” by Sowande’ Mustakeem (available through interlibrary loan)
- “Barracoon: The Story of the Last ‘Black Cargo'” by Zora Neale Hurston (BCCLS; eBook: Libby/Overdrive, hoopla; eAudiobook: Libby/Overdrive, hoopla)
- “Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America” by Sylviane A. Diouf (BCCLS; eAudiobook: hoopla)
FILMS (click on links to view on YouTube)
- “The Pieces That Remain: Clotilda, Last American Slave Ship,” National Geographic/Disney+
- “How Discovery of the Slave Ship Clotilda Informs U.S. History” by PBS NewsHour
- “Director Margaret Brown Talks Sundance 2022 Documentary film ‘Descendant,'” BlackFilmandTV
ARTICLES (Click on links to read)
- “History Demands We Preserve the Wreck of America’s Last Slave Ship” by Ben Raines, Time magazine, February 18, 2022
- “Last Known Slave Ship Is Remarkably Well Preserved, Researchers Say” by Michael Levenson, The New York Times, December 25, 2021
- “The ‘Clotilda,’ the Last Known Slave Ship to Arrive in the U.S., Is Found” by Allison Keyes, Smithsonian magazine, May 22, 2019