Ben H. Raines @BenHRaines
Found the wreck of the Clotilda, the last ship to bring enslaved Africans to America. Motto: Trust me, I'm a reporter. Fairhope, AL Joined October 2012-
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My Clotilda book, The Last Slave Ship - The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning got a coveted “star”from Kirkus, reserved for "books of extraordinary merit." Preorder on Amazon. kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/b…
My new book Saving America’s Amazon published today!
The Center for Biological Diversity's The Revelator invited me for a Q & A interview about Saving America's Amazon. Tara Lohan asked great questions. Many thanks for helping shine a spotlight on Alabama! therevelator.org/alabama-amazon…
Thrilled to be on NPR’s Weekend Edition today talking Saving America’s Amazon and the Clotilda with the fabulous Debbie Elliott. We toured the Delta and visited the ship. Take a listen! npr.org/2020/12/06/943…
My new book Saving America’s Amazon comes out Dec. 15. You can get a sneak peek here in the Los Angeles Times: latimes.com/opinion/story/…
I wrote a piece for the L.A. Times about what should happen to the wreck of the Clotilda, the last American slave ship, now that we found it. I’m for putting it on display in Africatown. Read it here: google.com/amp/s/www.lati…
My interview with NPR in the wake of the news that I discovered the wreck of the Clotilda, the last American slave ship. npr.org/2019/05/23/726…
Vote here to protect the Underwater Forest, a 70,000 year old relic on the bottom of the Gulf. al.com/news/2019/01/s…
New shipwreck is exactly the size of the Clotilda, the last American slave ship. google.com/amp/s/www.al.c…
Slave Ship update: New ship I found is "exactly the same size" as the Clotilda, according to the Nat Geo archaeology team now digging it up! al.com/news/2018/12/c…
Surf’s up! 10 and 12 footers rolling in.
Flipping houses: @BenHRaines had a bit of fun today and made a video of Camberg the hermit crab, who had a bit of a struggle getting into his new home! Enjoy with 🎧on for the full effect:
I swam with the fishes during the massive Gulf migration. The video is gorgeous, mesmerizing and mind-blowing. Truly epic in scale. It'll make your day. #saltlife al.com/news/mobile/in…
Gordon comes to Alabama! #aldotcom #hurricane
People set up a volleyball net in a bird rookery and killed hundreds of baby birds. Plucked eggs from nests and left them to bake in the sun. Just wicked. al.com/news/mobile/in…
Found another wreck from the 1800s in the area where the Clotilda was burned and sunk. More to come. al.com/news/mobile/in…
Ambassador of Benin begs forgiveness from Clotilda slaves during wreck visit al.com/news/mobile/in…
Hey, I’m Ben Raines and I'm hosting an AMA about my possible discovery of the last American slave ship, Clotilda! Join me, Mobile historian John Sledge, and anthropology professors Greg Cooke and John Bratten on Thursday at 1:30 in Reddit’s r/History subreddit!
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@BenHRaines it was a great audio piece, sir. I am all the way upstate in Athens, AL. so good to hear your story today. great work you are doing. ty
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Our only family portrait was taken on a kid’s fairground ride in the 80s. I thought the man nearest me in the picture was my dad, but my mother doesn’t know who the man is. And it also turns out the picture was taken a year before I was born. #FamilyValues
@Chris_WPMI But during the Pleistocene they were HUGE.
@BenHRaines This is awesome. Great accomplishment. Charming interview. KUDOS.
Great investigative work. Journalism clearly runs in this family. x.com/benhraines/sta…
I may have found the Clotilda, the last American slave ship. Check it out! al.com/news/mobile/in…
CONGRATS to @BenHRaines you’ve hit the big time. news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/01/clotil…
A super-cool story from one of my favorite former colleagues, @BenHRaines. The remains of the last ship to bring slaves to America may have been unearthed thanks to an intrepid reporter and really, really low tides. al.com/news/mobile/in…
Reporter seeks, possibly finds, wreck of last ship to import slaves into United States. al.com/news/mobile/in…
Archaeologists say Mobile, AL reporter @BenHRaines may have found the wreckage of the last American slave ship, the Clotilda: s.al.com/4C57wQO
@JaredJayBBoyd @HenryLouisGates @wkamaubell @City_of_Mobile @aldotcom @modmobilian Whoa!
@DitaVonTeese Oh what a lovely break from depressing Southern politics
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Got my second text from someone calling me Willie and trying to get me to vote for Doug Jones. Once again, it would have more effect if they confused me with Waylon.
Congrats to @BenHRaines for his film award Underwater Forest documentary. youtu.be/PKm0eRfFFfo
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