Meaher's Illegal Gamble: The Last Slave Ship

Podcast: Crimes of the Centuries · Amber Hunt and Audioboom

Opublikowano: 2026-06-22

In 1859, a wealthy Alabama landowner made a bet that he could do the unthinkable. The next spring, he did just that — trafficking human beings from West Africa to the United States a half-century after it had been made a federal crime punishable by death. The Clotilda brought back 110 men, women and children. For more than 150 years, the ship sat buried in the mud of a Mobile Bay bayou, as if the whole thing had never happened. Crimes of the Centuries is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab exploring forgotten crimes from times past that made a mark an...