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Clotilda

British  
/ kləˈtɪldə /

noun

  1. ?475–?545 ad , wife of Clovis I of the Franks, whom she converted (496) to Christianity

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His interviews in the 1920s provided information about the Clotilda and its passengers to historians and scholars.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 9, 2023

They were among the divers who’ve explored the Clotilda, a slave ship whose mostly intact hull that rests on the bottom of the Mobile River in Alabama.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2023

On that journey, Hurston interviewed Cudjo Lewis, then the oldest living formerly enslaved man who had been abducted on the Clotilda ship, the last slave ship to the United States.

From Washington Post • Jan. 17, 2023

The film’s revelation is that both of the film’s Mardi Gras queens, Helen Meaher and Steffanie Lucas, had ties to the Clotilda.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2022

He came close to Clotilda, and her father sat opposite to him.

From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography by Jean Paul