![]() With federal prosecutors on his tail, the Clotilda was scuttled up river and set afire to hide evidence of the voyage. The story goes that on a bet, plantation owner and ship builder Timothy Meaher hired a captain to bring kidnapped Africans to Mobile even though the Atlantic slave trade was illegal. "And then we have the ship and it's in a fragile condition, but the vast majority of it is still there and it's pretty amazing," Hathorn says.
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