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What this 18th-century shipwreck reveals about the horrors of the slave trade
For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...
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How Underwater Archaeology Brings Secrets to the Surface, From Lost Shipwrecks to Submerged Cities
In July 1860, the Clotilda—the last known slave ship to arrive in the United States—landed in Mobile, Alabama. The wooden ...
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Key West’s ‘Spirits of the Passage’ exhibit documents maritime slave trade
In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the ...
How Bristol's culture is bouncing back after slavery protests in 2020
It was hard not to be swept up in the furore that Bristol faced when its links to the transatlantic slave trade were laid ...
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The sloop-of-war that hunted slave ships and freed 700+ souls off West Africa
Slavery Patrols The USS Constellation splashed into the water at Gosport Navy Yard in Virginia on August 26, 1854. This ...
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Deleted Pirates of the Caribbean scene exposes 'dark' secret about Captain Jack Sparrow
The movie series began in 2003 with the premiere of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, where we join pirate captain Jack Sparrow and blacksmith Will Turner, p ...
The Brooklyn Allergist’s Office That Was Once Home to a Spy
An antislavery spy who worked for the British in New York in the 1800s lived in a house that is now home to an allergy doctor ...
In photos, the remaining descendants of the last known slave ship hold memorial ceremony
Attendees, many of them dressed in white, gathered near Africatown Bridge on the banks of the river, where the ship remains ...