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Claims of plunder and corporate piracy over the management of artifacts from an 18th-century shipwreck go to trial Monday in Delaware's Chancery Court.

Plans to create large museum projects in Boston and Tampa, Fla., were scuppered amid criticism over the ship’s role in the Atlantic slave trade. Maritime Explorations hired Buddenhagen as a management consultant in the early 1990s. Clifford](https://www.bloomberglaw.com/public/document/CONFORDPaulSBuddenhagenvBarryLCliffordDocketNo20190258DelChApr042/3?doc_id=X1Q6O310S582), Del. The only fully authenticated wreck from the “golden age” of piracy, it was discovered by underwater explorer Barry Clifford in 1982. [brief](https://www.bloomberglaw.com/public/document/CONFORDPaulSBuddenhagenvBarryLCliffordDocketNo20190258DelChApr042/2?doc_id=X1TC7395PG68CP8VPN2GTP87SNM). [pre-trial brief](https://www.bloomberglaw.com/public/document/CONFORDPaulSBuddenhagenvBarryLCliffordDocketNo20190258DelChApr042/1?doc_id=X42MOCCCKG98BSOG8CET363LOAU).