Last Known Slave Ship Is Remarkably Well Preserved, Researchers Say DNA may be extracted from the Clotilda, which was sunk in the Mobile River in Alabama in 1860 after it arrived from West Africa carrying 110 enslaved people, researchers said.

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Last Known Slave Ship Is Remarkably Well Preserved, Researchers Say DNA may be extracted from the Clotilda, which was sunk in the Mobile River in Alabama in 1860 after it arrived from West Africa carrying 110 enslaved people, researchers said. (archive.ph)

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Notice the last group of slaves (that arrived in 1860) preferred to stay in the US after the Civil War and not return to Africa.

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