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  • Shipwreck Ruins Found In The Gulf Coast Delta [...] Are Not Those Of The Last Slave Ship Clotilda

    03/05/2018 10:59:22 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 18 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | 5 March 2018 | Associated Press
    Investigators have determined that an old wooden wreck found on the Alabama Gulf Coast isn't the last slave ship to land in the United States, the Alabama Historical Commission said Monday.
  • Clotilda wreck: 'Last US slave ship' found in Alabama

    05/23/2019 6:28:39 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 53 replies
    BBC ^ | 05-22-2019 | Staff
    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...
  • Liberal memes (like this one) are just TOO EASY to knock down...

    07/24/2015 4:02:02 PM PDT · by The Looking Spoon · 19 replies
    American Irony ^ | 7-24-15 | The Looking Spoon
    Liberals always think they're clever with their little memes, but all the ever do is reveal how astonishingly dumb their arguments can be. Then there's this. Two sentences to knock this house of cards down, that's all it takes: The Republican Party dominates the South today. The Democratic Party owned the South when America had slavery.Thanks for playing...whoever made this.