mercredi 24 janvier 2018

Le dernier négrier américain retrouvé? L'histoire sordide du Clotilda.


La détermination d'un journaliste et le passe d'une "bombe cyclone" auraient favorisé la localisation de l'épave du dernier négrier connu de l'histoire américaine.

 "In the summer of 1860, half a century after the United States banned the trans-Atlantic slave trade, Capt. William Foster sneaked 110 African slaves into Mobile, Ala. — and knew that the floating evidence of the illegal deed could get him killed.

The trip was more part of an obscene bet than any sort of profit-making scheme, but the Clotilda, the ship that made the months-long journey, held the telltale signs that it was an illegal slaver: containers for water and food, and the lingering stench of urine and feces and vomit and blood.

If caught, Foster and his crew could be imprisoned or executed, so they found a remote section of the Mobile-Tensaw Delta and torched the ship, igniting a mystery that would endure for a century and a half."

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/01/24/the-last-u-s-slave-ship-was-burned-to-hide-its-horrors-a-storm-may-have-unearthed-it/?hpid=hp_no-name_hp-in-the-news%3Apage%2Fin-the-news&utm_term=.77f118ab7c17

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