Marine archaeologists find remains of slave ship
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 16:21
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Marine archaeologists have found the remains of a slave ship wrecked off the Turks and Caicos Islands in 1841, an accident that set free the ancestors of many current residents of those islands. Some 192 Africans survived the sinking of the Spanish ship Trouvadore off the British-ruled islands, where the slave trade was banned.
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