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Historic Slave Shipwreck Found Off South African Coast

Researchers have announced the discovery of the wreck of a Portuguese slave ship in which about 200 Mozambicans died when the ship sank just off Cape Town in 1794.

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  • 29 May 2015
    Slave Shipwreck Found Near Cape Town, South Africa
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    Smithsonian and Iziko Museums
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    The Slave Wrecks Project (SWP) is a long-term collaboration between six core partners, including the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. The project is designed to combine research, training and education to build new scholarship and knowledge about the study of the global slave trade, particularly through the lens of slave shipwrecks. Core partners for SWP include the George Washington University, Iziko Museums of South Africa, the South African Heritage

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  • Southern Africa:   Silenced By the Sea

    GWU, 1 June 2015

    For centuries, the legacy of sunken slave ships has been lost at the bottom of the ocean. Now, a historic collaboration between GW, the Smithsonian, IZIKO (Museums of South… Read more »

Iziko Museums of Cape Town

Underwater archaeology researchers on the site of the São José slave ship wreck near the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa.

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