The last known intact US slave ship is too ‘broken’ and should stay underwater, a report recommends

Report for America/Associated Press

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — An investigation funded by the state of Alabama says the last known U.S. slave ship is too broken and decayed to be extracted from the murky waters of the Gulf Coast without dismembering it. The task force headed by the Alabama Historical Commission says the ship had been broken in half by a large vessel and eroded by marine bacteria. It says that the most responsible way to memorialize the ship is to protect it under the water.