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Costa Rica shipwrecks, long thought to be pirate ships, were transporting enslaved people, scientists say
Marine archaeologists have discovered that two shipwrecks in Costa Rica that were previously believed to be pirate ships are ...
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Sojourner Truth descendant christens Navy ship named after Ulster native
Barbara Allen, sixth great-granddaughter of Sojourner Truth, says she’ll never forget the ceremony where the U.S. Navy ...
Haunting slave ships found off coast of national park 300 years later: 'Very convincing'
Divers recently identified two Danish slave ships, Fridericus Quartus and Christianus Quintus, during an excavation near ...
Ships carrying enslaved people wrecked amid revolts in 1700s. Now they’re found
Centuries after Danish ships carrying enslaved people from West Africa disappeared in the Caribbean, the charred and ...
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Initiative to Digitize Records of Slave Trade Will Move to Harvard
A nearly six-decades old initiative to digitize records of the trans-Atlantic and intra-American slave trades is moving to ...
Danish slave ships wreckage found off Costa Rica coast, museum confirms
Denmark's National Museum said two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica were previously thought to have been ...
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Visiting the Titanic is suddenly a lot easier than you think
Fresh advances in 3D scanning technology are making it possible to explore some of the hardest-to-reach and most fragile sites on Earth. This rendering of the Titanic is based on 715,000 photos ...
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Descendants of slave owners and enslaved people in the Caribbean call for reparations at the UN
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The great-great-grandson of 19th-century British Prime Minister William Gladstone said he was horrified to learn seven years ago that his ancestors were slave owners in ...