Tunstall’s great-great-great grandparents, Pollee and Rose Allen, were among them.īetween 15, enslavers captured and transported 12.5 million Africans to the Americas, crammed into inhumanely tight quarters, about 16 inches wide and 3 feet tall. In 1860, it arrived illegally carrying 110 captives, all between the ages of 5 and 23, from the West African city of Ouidah in what is now Benin. It is the last known slave ship to reach the United States. “The ship was the vessel, but it was never a huge part of our story.”įor historians, the Clotilda holds a shameful distinction. “Our history has been focused on the people,” she says.
But the tales she heard growing up weren’t about the schooner. Veda Tunstall has always known about the Clotilda, the slave ship that landed on the unfamiliar shores of Mobile Bay, Alabama, more than 150 years ago.
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