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Haunting slave ships found off coast of national park 300 years later: 'Very convincing'
Divers recently identified two Danish slave ships, Fridericus Quartus and Christianus Quintus, during an excavation near ...
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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 ...
Ships carrying enslaved people wrecked amid revolts in 1700s. Now they’re found
Centuries after Danish ships carrying enslaved people from West Africa disappeared in the Caribbean, the charred and ...
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Initiative to Digitize Records of Slave Trade Will Move to Harvard
A nearly six-decades old initiative to digitize records of the trans-Atlantic and intra-American slave trades is moving to ...
Danish slave ships wreckage found off Costa Rica coast, museum confirms
Two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica, previously thought to have been pirate ships, have been confirmed to ...