Timothy Meaher, a wealthy Alabama plantation owner, made a sinister bet that he could break the law and bought the Clotilda. In 1860, a year before the Civil War, owning slaves was still legal across the South, but importing them had been outlawed. "It's the right size, it's in the right location, the construction techniques show that it's the right age," Raines said. Raines spent three months studying historical records, the captain's journal, and insurance documents, but proving it's definitely the Clotilda would mean raising the wreck. And there was the ship," said Al.com reporter Ben Raines.Īn aerial view shows the outline of the wooden hull along with its starboard side. An evocative and epic story, Nick Tabor’s Africatown charts the fraught history of America from those who were brought here as slaves but nevertheless established a home for themselves and their descendants, a community which often thrived despite persistent racism and environmental pollution.In 1860, a ship called the Clotilda was smuggled through the Alabama Gulf Coast, carrying the last. "It was like pulling back a blanket along the shoreline and suddenly you could see who was under the covers. The wreckage, normally covered by water, was recently exposed by unusually low tides. (CBSMiami) - In Alabama's Mobile Bay, a local newspaper reporter discovered what many believe is probably the remains of the last slave ship to land in America, the Clotilda.
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