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Clotilda: An Update on the Archaeological Investigations of the Last Known American Slave Ship (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Maritime Archeology of the Slave Trade: Past and Present Work, and Future Prospects", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In July 1860, the schooner Clotilda arrived off the coast of Mobile, Alabama with a human cargo of captives transported from the Kingdom of Dahomey. Transferred under cover of night to a steamboat on the Mobile River, they were sold into slavery in what is the last known American slave trading...