Not much is left of the two-masted wooden brig thought to be the Industry, a 65-foot-long whaler that foundered after a storm in 1836.
Roughly 15 years before Herman Melville introduced the world to Moby Dick, a whaling ship from Massachusetts sank near the mouth of the Mississippi River.
"Black and Native American history is American history, and this critical discovery serves as an important reminder of the vast contributions Black and Native Americans have made to our country," U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Don Graves"This 19th century whaling ship will help us learn about the lives of the Black and Native American mariners and their communities, as well as the immense challenges they faced on land and at sea.
"The Gulf is an undersea museum of some incredibly well-preserved wrecks," said Delgado of SEARCH Inc., who a few years ago helped identify the, the Clotilda, in muddy river waters just north of Mobile, Alabama. "There were a whole series of regulations and laws so that if a crew came into a Southern port and there were a large number of mixed-raced or African American crew members on board, the ship was impounded and the crew members were taken into custody until it left," said Blake, president of the New Bedford Historical Society in Massachusetts. Black crew members also could be abducted and enslaved, she said.
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