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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 ...
The museum, tightly packed as it is with nautical ... which featured reproductions of the manifests of slave ships coming into Savannah, a deconstructed slave ship and ceramic sculptures in ...
Published in the June 2, 1860 issue of Harper's Weekly, The Slave Deck of the Bark "Wildfire" illustrated how Africans travelled on the upper deck of the ship. On board the ship were 510 captives ...
Jazz Slave Ships was a sitespecific performance collaboration ... of the antislavery pioneer William Wilberforce and now a museum of antislavery The production took place over a 3week period ...
so that faces you with the big investment of the port of Nantes and the traders and ship owners and to the slave trade in the 18th century." Across town at the city's historical museum and castle ...