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In 1839, Sengbe Pieh, also known as Joseph Cinque, along with hundreds of others from the West African village of Mendeland, ...
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Locals Thought These Shipwrecks Had Belonged to Pirates. They Turned Out to Be 300-Year-Old Danish Slave ShipsThe two vessels had been trafficking hundreds of enslaved Africans when a navigational error led them astray. They sank off ...
A host of beloved authors have new books hitting shelves this week, including a memoir by humorist Barry, a Mark Twain bio by ...
Archaeologists have uncovered a pair of Danish slave ships that sank off the Central American coast in 1710, shedding more ...
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Long-Lost Slave Ships Found Off Costa Rica’s Coast – The Story They Were HidingMarine archaeologists have made a remarkable discovery off the coast of Costa Rica, shedding new light on a mystery that has ...
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Divers In The Caribbean Just Identified Two Danish Slave Ships That Were Destroyed During A Mutiny In 1710In 1710, two Danish slave ships got lost in some smog while sailing through the Caribbean and ultimately became shipwrecked ...
Marine archaeologists uncover two 18th-century Danish slave ships in Cahuita National Park, Costa Rica. Learn about the 1710 ...
Archaeologists have uncovered a pair of Danish slave ships that sank off the Central American coast in 1710, shedding more light on the role played by Denmark in the transatlantic trafficking of ...
“The analyses are very convincing and we no longer have any doubts that these are the wrecks of the two Danish slave ships,” Dr Gregory said.
Two shipwrecks in Costa Rica were long thought to be sunken pirate ships. New research shows they were actually Danish slave ships. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with archaeologist Andreas Bloch.
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