Signs of age and damage

As found

Parts loose

18 inches in hight

16 in length

4 in width

The incident is especially noteworthy because the federal Slave Importation Act, passed in 1807, had officially banned the foreign importation of enslaved people into the United States. News of the Wanderer and its cargo quickly spread across the country and contributed to the sectional tensions between the North and the South that would soon lead to secession and the Civil War (1861-65).