Wreckage of the slave ship Clotilda, photograph included in Emma Langdon Roche's Historic Sketches of the South, c. 1914.
The "wreckage," as pictured here, would be the dark line of wood appearing out of the water, not the boat on shore. When this picture was taken, and whether this is in fact a photograph of the wreck of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to reach America's shores, is unclear. In 2019, researchers announced that a recently identified wreck in the lower Mobile-Tensaw Delta was officially confirmed to be the remains of the vessel.
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