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sethp001
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Initially Posted - 05/23/2019 :  05:51:28  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
“Records also noted that the schooner was built of southern yellow pine planking over white oak frames and was outfitted with a 13-foot-long centerboard that could be raised or lowered as needed to access shallow harbors.”

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2019/05/clotilda-the-last-american-slave-ship-found-in-alabama/


Seth
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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 05/23/2019 :  07:34:31  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Thanks Seth. Very interesting read.
Derek Crawford
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1981 C-25 TR/FK #2262 Used to have an '89 C22 #9483, "Downsized"
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Voyager
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Wow, this is very timely. A few weeks ago I watched the PBS Show “Finding Your Roots” where the host interviewed the musician Questlove who’s ancestry is linked to the Africatown community near Mobile AL.

The most touching moment in the show was when the host, Henry Louis Gates, Jr, read the names of Questlove’s direct ancestors who were brought from Benin (Ouidah) to Alabama on the ship, showing the title documents to the owners’ property on the screen.

That’s when he broke down realizing the entire chain of events from that moment in 1860 up to the present day. Until then it was all in the hazy abstract, but now it all suddenly came into sharp focus for him.

It’s incredible that the soft muddy bottom of the Mobile Bay preserved that slave ship for these 160 years!
Bruce Ross
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Edited by - Voyager on 05/23/2019 15:44:39
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Stinkpotter
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Response Posted - 05/23/2019 :  20:08:10  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
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Originally posted by Voyager

It’s incredible that the soft muddy bottom of the Mobile Bay preserved that slave ship for these 160 years!
I have evidence of the same phenomenon at my dock, where we cut open a 33-year-old piling we removed. It was like new below the mud line, less so below the waterline, and most decayed above the waterline--especially at the top where rain soaks into the end-grain.

Quite a story there... The Amistad, now a reproduction of the slave ship and maintained here in Mystic, represents another fascinating story of a slave mutiny, recapture, trial, and vindication memorialized by the Spielberg film of the same name.
Dave Bristle
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