Researchers find wreck of last slave ship off Alabama

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Researchers discovered the last ship known to smuggle slaves from Africa to the US in Alabama’s Mobile River, nearly 160 years after it was deliberately sunk, the Alabama Historical Commission announced Wednesday.

The ‘Clotilda’ was discovered by a company called SEARCH Inc in collaboration with the commission and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Historian have identified the schooner to be the last ship known to bring African captives to the US, Reuters...

https://safety4sea.com/researchers-find-wreck-of-last-slave-ship-off-alabama/

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