Insurance document for slave schooner Clotilda
At the end of January, we posted about a shipwreck that was suspected to be the remains of the schooner Clotilda, the last vessel to carry slaves to the United States. The wreck was roughly in the right place on Mobile River just off Twelvemile Island. From what could be seen from above the river mud, the vessel was about the right size, and at one point appeared to have been burned, as was the Clotilda before she was abandoned. Now however after further research and excavation, the Alabama Historical Commission has issued a report concluding that the newly discovered wreck is not that of the infamous slave schooner.
The commission report concluded that the wreck was that of a ship which was too large, built of the wrong species of wood, with the wrong rig, and probably newer than the Clotilda.
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