Matilda McCrear was taken from West Africa to Mobile, Alabama, on board the last slave transport ship, the Clotilda, in July 1860, a UK researcher has discovered, uncovering the life of a ...

Now her living grandchildren are learning of her life and legacy. An undated portrait of Matilda McCrear, the slave ship Clotilda's last survivor, shows her in her later years. She died in 1940 at ...

Now believed to be the last survivor of the barbaric trade, the world would never have heard the story of Matilda McCrear if it was not for a Newcastle University lecturer who has painstakingly ...

Hannah Durkin of Newcastle University used genealogical data and a single newspaper interview to piece together the story of Matilda McCrear, who died in 1940 at the age of 81 or 82—three years ...

The identity of America’s last captured African slave has been revealed. Matilda McCrear was just 2 years old when she was abducted in 1860 by slave traders in West Africa. She, her sister ...

But Matilda McCrear was determined to go and make her legal claim for compensation for the horrors that she and her family ...

Matilda McCrear was just two years old when she was captured by slave traders in West Africa and transport to the U.S. on the Clotilda, the last American slave ship. The Clotilda docked in Mobile ...

Her name was Matilda McCrear, and she was the last known survivor of the transatlantic slave trade. Crear, who lives near Selma, only found out the significance of his family tree a few years ago ...

Matilda McCrear was taken from West Africa to Mobile, Alabama, on board the last slave transport ship, the Clotilda, in July 1860, a UK researcher has discovered, uncovering the life of a ...

Now believed to be the last survivor of the barbaric trade, the world would never have heard the story of Matilda McCrear if it was not for a Newcastle University lecturer who has painstakingly ...

Matilda McCrear lived until 1940 - the last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade The transatlantic slave trade might seem like something from a distant and barbaric era - but a historian has ...