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in Ala-bama’s Mobile River and discovered there in 2019, showed the vessel and remnants of is the most intact slaving vessel ever found, preserved because it lies in fresh water, not at sea, repository of most similar hulks. The discovery prompted a wave of interest in Africatown, Alabama, a community south of Mobile whose residents descend from 32 survivors. Last June, at the request of Africatown mayor Sandy Stimpson, descendants of Timothy Meaher, the White businessman who financed the voyage, sold a property the family owned in Africatown to descendants to house a food bank and redevelopment corporation, the Associated Press reported. The $50,000 price was far below the market value of $300,000. The Meahers are major Mobile area landowners.
