Senator Doug Jones Memorializes Discovery of the Clotilda in Senate Resolution
October 18, 2019
October 18, 2019
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 -- Sen. Doug Jones, D-Alabama, issued the following news release:
U.S. Senator Doug Jones (D-Ala.) has introduced a resolution in the United States Senate to memorialize the discovery of the Clotilda, the last known ship to bring enslaved Africans to the United States.
The Clotilda arrived in Mobile Bay, Alabama in 1860, 53 years after the United States Congress banned the importation of enslaved people in 1807. Following the end of the Civil War in . . .
U.S. Senator Doug Jones (D-Ala.) has introduced a resolution in the United States Senate to memorialize the discovery of the Clotilda, the last known ship to bring enslaved Africans to the United States.
The Clotilda arrived in Mobile Bay, Alabama in 1860, 53 years after the United States Congress banned the importation of enslaved people in 1807. Following the end of the Civil War in . . .