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What did a Spanish shipwreck reveal about the final years of the slave trade?
25/10/2022 09:03 PM | Click to read full article
Forty-one of the 561 enslaved Africans on board the “Guerrero” died when the illegal slave ship sank off the Florida Keys in 1827, The Trying to zigzag through the Florida Keys’ razor-sharp reefs was a deadly blunder for the Guerrero. Divers Alannah Vellacott, Josh Williams, and Kinga Philipps examine human leg shackles from a slave ship discovered off the Florida Keys.