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===The Clotilda===
The [[Clotilda (slave ship)]] (often misspelled Clotilde) was the last known U.S. [[slave ship]] to bring captives from Africa to the United States, arriving at [[Mobile Bay]], in autumn 1859 or on July 9, 1860, with 110 African men, women, and children. The ship was a two-masted [[schooner]], 86 feet (26 m) long with a beam of 23 ft (7.0 m).
U.S. involvement in the [[Atlantic slave trade]] had been banned by Congress through the [[Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves]] enacted on March 2, 1807 (effective January 1, 1808), but the practice continued illegally, especially through slave traders based in New York in the 1850s and early 1860. In the case of the Clotilda, the voyage's sponsors were based in the South and planned to buy Africans in [[Kingdom of Whydah]], [[Dahomey]]. After the voyage, the ship was burned and scuttled in Mobile Bay in an attempt to destroy the evidence.