A journalist discovered the vessel in 2018 and enlisted the University of Southern Mississippi to help survey the river. Alabama Historical Commissionįrom oral history to science, unearthing the Clotilda has involved myriad individuals, teams and some might say, miracles.
Select artifacts will be displayed in special viewing tanks. The shipwrecked Clotilda has remained at the bottom of the Mobile River for more than a century. Through interpretive text panels, documents and artifacts, this landmark exhibition focuses on the survivors: from their individual West African beginnings to their enslavement, and eventual freedom and settlement of a 19th century community dubbed Africatown in Mobile. “Clotilda: The Exhibition" opens at the Africatown Heritage House on July 8. The July 8 opening coincides with the anniversary of the ship’s arrival after a tortured four-month passage.
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