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Cool indeed but 1856CE is not quite as incredible as 300BCE.
by xandrius 2y ago
Cool indeed but 1856CE is not quite as incredible as 300BCE.
- WalterBright 2y agoWhat was in the 1856 wreck has rewritten the history of commerce on the Mississippi.
- Munksgaard 2y agoYou'll never guess what happened next!
- adolph 2y agoThis is the one weird trick that museums use to pull in donor dollars.
- joseppudev 2y agodid it rewrite the slave trade part as well or did that remain as it is written?
- Alive-in-2025 2y agoLook around Wikipedia, you find a little more info re slavery and this ship. Kansas and Missouri were on the violent border with a mixture of pro and anti-slavery views, even as the geographical boundary of allowed slavery separated "the south". The museum website says there's clothing on the ship that has a pro-slavery mark, to be sent to some store. The ship at one time was boarded by pro-slavery forces who found hidden guns that were being shipped to abolitionists. It does not appear they sent slaves on it en mass. There were plenty of people who were pro slavery in those days. Mixed all across the US, read Mark Twain. There were plenty of people against it. More to the point, I wonder if the museum addresses this. I'm going to guess only in a small way, having lived half my life in the south. Maybe someone with actual knowlege can comment instead of web search "experts" like me.
- devoutsalsa 2y agoIt’s not a competition.
- timeon 2y agoYeah but the one from 19th century seems bit random for this thread.
- rUsHeYaFuBu 2y agoLoughla did state: "only tangentially related"