DAPHNE, Ala. — Robert M. Glennon of Point Clear will speak at the Daphne local history forum at 10 a.m. today. Glennon’s topic will be “The Last Slave Ship to America.”

The schooner Clotilde was the last known U.S. slave ship to bring slaves from Africa to the United States, arriving at Mobile Bay in autumn 1859, with 110 to 160 slaves.  The ship, a two-masted schooner, was burned and scuttled at Mobile Bay. Many descendants of Cudjo Kazoola Lewis, the last survivor of the Clotilde, still reside in Africatown, a neighborhood of Mobile.

Glennon is a fifth-generation of the Sibley and Glennon families. The Sibleys were Baldwin County revolutionaries in Anglo-Spanish times and were founders of the town of Montrose, Robert Glennon said; the Glennons were a prominent Mobile family from the late 1850s and were the owners of the Grand Hotel at Point Clear for 38 years.

Light refreshments will be provided and admission is free.

The Daphne Public Library is at the intersection of U.S. 98 and Whispering Pines.