Two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica, previously thought to have been pirate ships, have been confirmed to be two Danish slave ships, a museum said Sunday. "Investigations of ship ...
The Henrietta Marie was an English slave ship that mysteriously sank off the coast of Key West in 1700. It was returning from a trip to Jamaica where 191 slaves were sold. Nearly 300 years later, a ...
The unique Africatown Heritage House opened its doors earlier this month, treating visitors to “Clotilda: The Exhibition,” which chronicles the voyage and sinking of the last-known slave ship. The ...
Underwater archaeologists at the site of the São José slave ship wreck near Cape of Good Hope, South Africa (courtesy Iziko Museums, all images via Smithsonian Institution) Long-lost between two reefs ...
The last known US slave ship is too “broken” and decayed to be extracted from the murky waters of the Alabama Gulf Coast without being dismembered, a task force of archaeologists, engineers and ...
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As the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture continues to prepare for its grand opening in September, so does the collection that museum curators are pulling together ...
KINGSTON, N.Y. — A reproduction of the slave ship Amistad, known for the 1839 uprising of enslaved African captives from Sierra Leone who overthrew the crew and ultimately brought the ship into Long ...
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