At least two Africans died in these conditions. The men, women, and children were forced below deck, cramped together in darkness with only vinegar-treated water to drink. In 1860, Foster docked the Clotilda in the Kingdom of Dahomey in modern day Benin and purchased more than 100 people who later self-identified as Tarkars.
In 1860, partners William Foster and Timothy Meaher set out to illegally import and enslave Africans aboard the ship Clotilda. White enslavers continued to covertly traffic in African people for profit, and Northern businessmen invested in that trade. After Congress banned the international trade of enslaved people in 1808, the South’s booming plantation economy maintained high demand for stolen Africans’ labor, knowledge, and skill.
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