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Scott Pelley reports on the Smithsonian and the Slave Wrecks Project's journey to recover the first artifacts known to be preserved from a slave ship The following script is from "The Slave Ship ...
Marine archaeologists have found the remains of a slave ship wrecked off the Turks and Caicos Islands in 1841, an accident that set free the ancestors of many current residents of those islands ...
The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, ...
Archaeologists recently made a startling discovery: They found that two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Central America were actually two Danish slave ships.
The new National Geographic documentary Clotilda: Last American Slave Ship is scheduled to premiere Monday, June 17 at 8/7c. During Clotilda: Last American Slave Ship, archaeologists explore the ...
While a lot of the acting and motivation reeks of the phoney, Slave Ship is so effectively mounted and shot through with action that it stands up.
How a Sunken Slave Ship Set Off “a Search for Ourselves” More than 200 captive Africans were lost when the São José Paquete D’Africa went down in 1794.
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 ...
Nearly 200 years ago, the slave ship Guerrero sunk, killing forty-one Africans. The wreck vanished. Until now. A group of divers led by Ken Stewart, a Black man in his seventies, believe they ...
A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecks—and reconnecting Black communities to the deep.
So, I think we’re on the right track to finding the slave ship the Guerrero.” Only serious naval ships boasted iron carronades. These types of guns were the sawed-off shotguns of the sea.