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Clotilda wreck: 'Last US slave ship' found in Alabama
BBC ^ | 05-22-2019 | Staff

Posted on 05/23/2019 6:28:39 AM PDT by Red Badger

The last ship known to have smuggled slaves from Africa to the US is said to have been discovered after a year-long investigation.

The remains of the Clotilda were found at the bottom of the Mobile river in Alabama.

The ship was used to smuggle men, women and children into America from Africa.

It operated in secret, decades after Congress banned the importation of slaves, and was intentionally sunk in 1860 to hide evidence of its use.

"The discovery of the Clotilda is an extraordinary archaeological find," Lisa Demetropoulos Jones, executive director of the Alabama Historical Commission (AHC), told the Associated Press (AP) news agency.

The ship's journey "represented one of the darkest eras of modern history" and the wreck provides "tangible evidence of slavery", she said.

The Clotilda was discovered by archaeology firm company Search Inc, which was called in to help by the Alabama Historical Commission to investigate the hulk, says the National Geographic Society, which reported the find.

Researchers discovered a ship with its identifying features under water in a section of the Mobile river, says National Geographic.

The dimensions and construction of the wreck matched those of the Clotilda, as did building materials, the commission said.

"We are cautious about placing names on shipwrecks that no longer bear a name or something like a bell with the ship's name on it," maritime archaeologist James Delgado said in a statement.

"But the physical and forensic evidence powerfully suggests that this is Clotilda."

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Education; History; Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: 1860; alabama; civilwar; clotilda; ggg; humantrafficking; mobileriver; ship; slave; slavery; slaveship; slavetrafficking
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To: NELSON111

Article is about the ~1860’s not the southern border or any other border today. Yes there’s still slave trading going on and probably always will be.


41 posted on 05/23/2019 8:08:13 AM PDT by maddog55
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To: Red Badger

Good points!

Thank you for reminding me

https://sites.google.com/site/islamicscripturesunveiled/Home/slavery

“Islam does not prohibit slavery but retains it for two reasons. The first reason is war (whether it is a civil war or a foreign war in which the captive is either killed or enslaved) provided that the war is not between Muslims against each other - it is not acceptable to enslave the violators, or the offenders, if they are Muslims. Only non-Muslim captives may be enslaved or killed. The second reason is the sexual propagation of slaves which would generate more slaves for their owner.”

Dr. ‘Abdul-Latif Mushtahari
(Director of Homiletics and Guidance
Al-Azhar University, Cairo)


42 posted on 05/23/2019 8:11:20 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: Tell It Right
In studies about the slavery issue I found that North Carolina and Virginia tried to address the situation and the abolishment of slavery and were thwarted in their efforts by members of the states of Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey because the abolishment of slavery would be detrimental to the shipping interests of those states.
43 posted on 05/23/2019 8:13:27 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: Red Badger
Why so many American blacks want to convert to Islam is a puzzle........

It is not so much of a puzzle if one considers the Bell Curve and the nature of the average intelligence of each of the races. I don't understand how the Chinese were so manipulated from past the Civil War until the turn of the century as their intelligence would have stopped the Californians from abusing, killing and using them as they did. The history of the Californians abusing the Chinese exceeded that of the blacks in the South IMO.

44 posted on 05/23/2019 8:19:18 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: Red Badger

I wonder what the descendants of the smuggled contraband would think if the were returned to their homelands?


45 posted on 05/23/2019 8:26:29 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: fella

Wouldn’t that make them illegals?.............


46 posted on 05/23/2019 8:28:50 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Calvin Locke

The pirate museum is along the coastline in Southern Mass and is wonderful. The owner and his wife run the place.


47 posted on 05/23/2019 8:32:55 AM PDT by Jumper (The DNC's Big Tent ... a place where he opposition to America comes together)
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To: Red Badger

In their homelands?

So you think that their homelands don’t want them?


48 posted on 05/23/2019 8:35:27 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: fella

No, here.....................


49 posted on 05/23/2019 8:38:03 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Blennos

“Almost ALL the major ships were owned by a shrewd type of person always alleging they never had anything to do with slavery. And who wants you to constantly commemorate stuff you didn’t do, and which you in fact stopped.”

Where does the word “Jew” appear in the above quote?


50 posted on 05/23/2019 8:39:18 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Rebelbase

Surely you understand that the word is used by implication. The poster is too shrewd (and cowardly) to use the word directly. Based on his many, many similar posts, his implication is perfectly clear.


51 posted on 05/23/2019 9:06:37 AM PDT by Blennos
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To: DiogenesLamp
gaijin said:

Almost ALL the major ships were owned by a shrewd type of person always alleging they never had anything to do with slavery. And who wants you to constantly commemorate stuff you didn’t do, and which you in fact stopped.

DiogenesLamp said:

Vast majority of the ships were owned by New York/New Englanders.

Pretty much the same thing isn't it?

52 posted on 05/23/2019 10:13:31 AM PDT by Chuckster (Probably not...)
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gaijin said:

Almost ALL the major ships were owned by a shrewd type of person always alleging they never had anything to do with slavery. And who wants you to constantly commemorate stuff you didn’t do, and which you in fact stopped.

DiogenesLamp said:

Vast majority of the ships were owned by New York/New Englanders.

Pretty much the same thing isn't it?

53 posted on 05/23/2019 10:14:04 AM PDT by Chuckster (Probably not...)
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To: vetvetdoug

How did those states thwart the abolition of slavery in VA and NC?


54 posted on 05/23/2019 2:30:20 PM PDT by Bull Snipe
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