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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Safiyah Riddle

The last known intact US slave ship is too 'broken' and should stay underwater, a report recommends

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The last known U.S. slave ship is too “broken” and decayed to be extracted from the murky waters of the Alabama Gulf Coast without being dismembered, a task force of archaeologists, engineers and historians announced following a yearslong investigation.

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