Matilda McCrear
Matilda McCrear (c. 1857 – January 1940) was a Yoruba-American woman who was the last known living survivor in the United States of the transatlantic slave trade and the ship "Clotilda". She was captured and brought to Mobile, Alabama at the age of two with her mother and older sister.

The girls were sold away from their mother and never reunited. Together with other American slaves in Union-occupied territory in the South, Matilda was granted freedom and American citizenship by the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. She and her family did not achieve freedom until after the "de facto" abolition of slavery in 1865. She continued to be a sharecropper as an adult, and had a family of fourteen children with a white common-law husband. She died in Selma, Alabama.
Q16151496
Yoruba-American
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Q10701282
transatlantic slave trade
Concept
Q5135586
Clotilda
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Q79875
Mobile, Alabama
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Q391358
Emancipation Proclamation
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Q79941
Selma, Alabama
LOC
Q88541420
Matilda McCrear
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1857-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1857
DATE
1940-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
January 1940
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1863-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1863
DATE
1865-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1865
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date of death