Darned if they just recently thought they had found the wreck of the last slave ship that got past the U.S. Navy* in 1860, the Clotilda:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fGiIgDXAPHp5v5m-48AlRN-AEzjrsYXx/view
But they'll keep looking. No slave ship verified to have brought slaves to the U.S. has ever been found. Of course any ship that brought African slaves in after 1808 was doing so illegally, against Federal Law.
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* or was it actually the U.S. Revenue Cutter service (which much later became the U.S. Coast Guard)?. Anyone knowing the history of that is invited to clarify
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fGiIgDXAPHp5v5m-48AlRN-AEzjrsYXx/view
But they'll keep looking. No slave ship verified to have brought slaves to the U.S. has ever been found. Of course any ship that brought African slaves in after 1808 was doing so illegally, against Federal Law.
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* or was it actually the U.S. Revenue Cutter service (which much later became the U.S. Coast Guard)?. Anyone knowing the history of that is invited to clarify
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