30 November 2008

Remains of the slave ship Trouvadore found

The ship hit a reef off the Turks and Caicos Islands in 1841, freeing the 193 Africans aboard, researchers say.
Texas researchers have discovered the wreck of the slave ship Trouvadore, which slammed into a reef off the coast of the Turks and Caicos Islands in 1841, freeing the 193 Africans who were being brought to the U.S. South for a life of servitude.
It is the only known wreck of a ship involved in the illegal slave trade, said marine archaeologist Don Keith, president of the underwater archaeology institute Ships of Discovery in Corpus Christi, Texas.[...]
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