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PHOTOGRAPH BY DANIEL FIORE, ALABAMA HISTORICAL COMMISSION
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By the fiery light of a burning ship, the criminals tried to cover up their horrific abduction and enslavement of 110 African people just delivered to Alabama.
This week, nearly 162 years after the blaze, divers and archeologists announced the discovery of charred timbers and other traces of the coverup from the sunken Clotilda, the last-known American slave ship.
“A number of artifacts have come up, and with some of them, dramatic evidence of the fire and the sinking,” archaeologist and chief investigator James Delgado tells Nat Geo. (Pictured above, recovery efforts, which have been funded in part by the National Geographic Society.)
Read the full story here. Plus: Clotilda’s enduring legacy
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