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Long-Lost Slave Ships Found Off Costa Rica’s Coast – The Story They Were Hiding
Marine archaeologists have made a remarkable discovery off the coast of Costa Rica, shedding new light on a mystery that has ...
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Costa Rica’s 1710 Danish Shipwreck Redefines Slave Trade Narrative
Marine archaeologists uncover two 18th-century Danish slave ships in Cahuita National Park, Costa Rica. Learn about the 1710 ...
Mises Institute2d
Enslavement of Native Americans in the Caribbean
The transatlantic slave trade from Africa is a well-known chapter in the history of slavery in the Western Hemisphere, but ...
Smithsonian Magazine3d
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 the coast of Costa Rica in the 18th century ...
Key West Citizen4d
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 ...
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Collaborative project yields new digital archive on hidden history of Indigenous enslavement
Stolen Relations, a public database set to launch on Saturday, May 10, reveals the stories of thousands of Native people ...
Danish ships involved in transatlantic slave trade uncovered off Costa Rica
Danish ships involved in transatlantic slave trade uncovered off Costa Rica - Fridericus Quartus and Christianus Quintus sank ...
R.I. church confronts its history with the slave trade
While the Trump administration tries to downplay matters of race and racism in US history, the minister of a Providence ...