Posted on 05/24/2019 7:24:20 AM PDT by golux
The wreck of the last slave ship ever to reach American shores has been found in a river delta near Mobile, Alabama, according to the state's historical commission.
In 1860, on the eve of the American Civil War, the schooner Clotilda took aboard 110 individuals in West Africa and sailed across the Atlantic to deliver them to slaveowners in Mobile. After they were unloaded, the ship was burned outside of the port.
The transatlantic slave trade had already been banned in the U.S. for decades, and at the time of the landing, importing African people for purposes of slavery was punishable by death under American law. Despite the illegality of their enterprise, the charterers sold about two dozen of the individuals on board, gave five to eight more to the vessel's master as payment for his services, and divided the ownership of those who remained. The abductees remained enslaved until the end of the Civil War; after emanicipation, many settled nearby in a village known as Africatown.
The location of the Clotilda's wreck remained a mystery until April 2018...
(Excerpt) Read more at maritime-executive.com ...
Prigg v Pensylvania. Massachusetts Freedom trials.
Oh, you didn’t mention you were in favor of negro slavery.
I'm not in favor of slavery of any sort, but I'm also not in favor of pretending laws don't mean what they meant when they were written.
I'm very much against this practice by Liberal judges of "interpreting" a law to mean something very different from what was it's original intent.
Bad laws should be enforced until enough outrage is provoked to repeal them. I believe President Grant is the first to have said that.
"“I shall on all subjects have a policy to recommend, but none to enforce against the will of the people. Laws are to govern all alike—those opposed as well as those who favor them. I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.”
And I don't know why you want to impugn my motives or my philosophy.
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