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Archaeologist sheds new light on astonishing discovery of wrecked slave ships: 'Stranded on the coast'
Archaeologist David John Gregory recently spoke with Fox News Digital about the haunting discovery of Danish two slave ships, ...
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Divers In The Caribbean Just Identified Two Danish Slave Ships That Were Destroyed During A Mutiny In 1710
In 1710, two Danish slave ships got lost in some smog while sailing through the Caribbean and ultimately became shipwrecked ...
What a 19th-century slave ship can tell us about one of Trump’s biggest attempts to defy the rule of law
In 1839, Sengbe Pieh, also known as Joseph Cinque, along with hundreds of others from the West African village of Mendeland, ...
The lesser-known story of 100K courageous runaway slaves who fled the South via the ‘Blue Highway’
The setting for their flights was what became known as the “Blue Highway,” which ran up and down the Eastern Seaboard and enabled enslaved people to escape as stowaways in below-deck hideaways.
‘Freedom Ship’ Review: Sailing Out of Slavery
An overland journey north was an impractical choice for many who sought to escape bondage. Some fugitives took to the sea.
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Long-Lost Slave Ships Found Off Costa Rica’s Coast – The Story They Were Hiding
What were once believed to be pirate shipwrecks have now been definitively identified astwo Danish slave ships that sank in ...
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Locals Thought These Shipwrecks Had Belonged to Pirates. They Turned Out to Be 300-Year-Old Danish Slave Ships
The two vessels had been trafficking hundreds of enslaved Africans when a navigational error led them astray. They sank off ...
Centuries-old Danish slave shipwrecks discovered off Costa Rica’s coast
This is one of the most dramatic events in Denmark’s maritime history — and now we know where it happened,” said marine ...
Stir in Costa Rica: Scientific analysis confirms that the wooden ships shipwrecked off the coast did not belong to pirates
History never ceases to surprise us with recent discoveries, as has happened in Costa Rica, as several scientific analyses have confirmed that the wooden ships shipwrecked off its ...
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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 ...