While the upper portion of the two-masted Clotilda is gone, the section below deck where the captured Africans and stockpiles were held is still largely in one piece after being buried for decades in a section of river that hasn’t been dredged, said maritime archaeologist James Delgado of the Florida-based SEARCH Inc.
Friday, December 24, 2021
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Researchers studying the wreckage of the last U.S. slave ship, buried in mud on the Alabama coast since it was scuttled in 1860, have made the surprising discovery that most of the wooden schooner remains intact, including the pen that was used to imprison African captives during the brutal journey across the Atlantic Ocean.
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We should sell that ship to China in return for some cheap slave-built iPhones/
ReplyDeleteI suggest that the hard BLM works rescue the boat and display it on resident Xiden's front yard in Delaware.
ReplyDeleteThe descendants of the slaves who were brought to America, should be thanking the slave owners for getting so many of them out of Africa. Do you think any of today's blacks in America would be better off back in Africa? Does anyone ever want to immigrate to an African country? Asking for a friend.
ReplyDeleteDo any Africans want American Blacks???
DeleteProbably no more than we wanting them.
DeleteIt wasn't so good for the slaves that died on the ships, nor for the many men that went straight from the ship to an all-male labor gang and died of overwork, disease, and beatings without ever having a chance to contribute their genes.
DeleteLooking forward to more tourism for a new museum, the people are. Must be Democrats, still making money from slaves.
ReplyDeleteSomething ain't right. US ended African slave trade in 1808.
ReplyDeleteDaryl
Read the article. It said it was an illegal voyage.
DeleteJust like guns and drugs, outlawing something doesn't mean it goes away. There were plenty of Americans that did not want the law against the transatlantic slave trade enforced.
DeleteBut it does seem to have eventually been far more effectively enforced (possibly more by the Royal Navy patrols off Africa than by American authorities) than drug laws, the felon-in-possession gun laws, or immigration laws. Looking up the Clotilda in Wikipedia and following through to other articles, historians believe that in the last three years before the Civil War, only two slave ships got through, bringing a total of 519 slaves, which made no noticeable difference in the US slave population. In 1858, Wanderer landed in Georgia with 409 kidnapping victims alive, out of about 490 - 600 loaded in the Congo. The slave traders were prosecuted, but acquitted by a Georgia jury. In 1859, the Wanderer was allegedly "stolen" for another trip, but the first mate mutinied and brought it home empty. In 1859, the Clotilda made it's first and only trip, but this was a small ship carrying only 110, and after unloading it, the owner burned it to the waterline to cover up the evidence.
They should raise the ship and turn it into a museum.
ReplyDeleteThen when any black tourists climb aboard to look around you say, "WTF, you know what happened the last time you were on, or do you want to go back?"