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The lesser-known story of 100K courageous runaway slaves who fled the South via the ‘Blue Highway’
The setting for their flights was what became known as the “Blue Highway,” which ran up and down the Eastern Seaboard and ...
Archaeologist sheds new light on astonishing discovery of wrecked slave ships: 'Stranded on the coast'
Archaeologist David John Gregory recently spoke with Fox News Digital about the haunting discovery of Danish two slave ships, ...
‘Freedom Ship’ Review: Sailing Out of Slavery
An overland journey north was an impractical choice for many who sought to escape bondage. Some fugitives took to the sea.
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Long-Lost Slave Ships Found Off Costa Rica’s Coast – The Story They Were Hiding
What were once believed to be pirate shipwrecks have now been definitively identified astwo Danish slave ships that sank in ...
What a 19th-century slave ship can tell us about one of Trump’s biggest attempts to defy the rule of law
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 Ships
The two vessels had been trafficking hundreds of enslaved Africans when a navigational error led them astray. They sank off ...
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Centuries-old Danish slave shipwrecks discovered off Costa Rica’s coast
The findings of an alleged slave ship off the coast of Costa Rica. (photo credit: National Museum of Denmark) Marine archaeologists have confirmed that two shipwrecks off Costa Rica’s southern ...
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New research reveals a misconception about long-sunken 'pirate' ships in Costa Rica
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.
Archaeologists Solve Centuries-Old Mystery Behind Dual Shipwrecks
The ships were found in the early 1800s, but scientists have only recently pieced together their history. Researchers have ...
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Key West’s ‘Spirits of the Passage’ exhibit documents maritime slave trade
In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the ...