The 86-foot schooner was captained by William Foster, and its voyage was financed by a group of Alabama enslavers headed by the businessman Timothy Meaher. In Ouidah, Foster negotiated a price of ...

In 1860, Timothy Meaher with Captain William Foster illegally carried over a hundred enslaved Africans on the Clotilda then wrecked and abandoned the ship to conceal their trip. The slave trade ...

After betting that he could smuggle a slave ship into the country and escape the consequences, wealthy Alabama plantation owner Timothy Meaher sailed to what was then the Kingdom of Dahomey ...