Pretty sure no will want THIS symbol of oppressive slabery moved, destroyed, or otherwise placed out of sight. Strange how National Geographic, renowned worldwide for stunning photography from places like the Congo, Antarctica, and the ocean floor, can't seem to provide a picture of said slabeship lying at the bottom of a well-navigated and mapped American river. Not even a rusty chain, or some legirons? Can't wait for these race-hustlers to roll out an intact logbook from the captain...
The schooner Clotilda—the last known ship to bring enslaved Africans to America’s shores—has been discovered in a remote arm of Alabama’s Mobile River following an intensive yearlong search by marine archaeologists.
"Descendants of the Clotilda survivors have dreamed of this discovery for generations," says Lisa Demetropoulos Jones, executive director of the Alabama Historical Commission (AHC) and the State Historic Preservation Officer. "We’re thrilled to announce that their dream has finally come true."Still waiting for someone to tell me how 389,000 pieces of farm equipment became 40 million 'victims'.The captives who arrived aboard Clotilda were the last of an estimated 389,000 Africans delivered into bondage in mainland America from the early 1600s to 1860. Thousands of vessels were involved in the transatlantic trade, but very few slave wrecks have ever been found.
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