In 1860, Timothy Meaher with Captain William Foster illegally carried over a hundred enslaved Africans on the Clotilda then wrecked and abandoned the ship to conceal their trip. The slave trade ...

Foster wrote in his journal that the Clotilda was then burned to destroy any evidence. A drawing of a similar ship, the Liverpool slave ship Brooks [Getty Images] Foster was ultimately prosecuted ...

"Museums have power, and that ship loses its power if it is sitting in the water," said Ben Raines, a former local reporter ...

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