Last known US slave ship found in Alabama
by Reuters from World news | The Guardian on (#4FQ7Z)
The Clotilda was found by SEARCH Inc in collaboration with the Alabama Historical Commission
The last ship known to smuggle slaves from Africa to the US has been discovered in Alabama's Mobile River, nearly 160 years after it was deliberately sunk, a historical commission has said.
The Alabama Historical Commission, in a post on its Facebook page, called the effort to locate the ship, the Clotilda, a "year-long scientific investigation.".
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