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Secrets of the deep: Senegal's slave shipwreck detective
« on: August 23, 2017, 10:33:49 am »
Secrets of the deep: Senegal's slave shipwreck detective
August 17, 2017 by Jennifer O'mahony


Staring out to sea on a flawlessly sunny day, underwater archaeologist Ibrahima Thiaw visualises three shipwrecks once packed with slaves that now lie somewhere beneath Senegal's Atlantic waves.

He wants more than anything to find them.

Thiaw has spent years scouring the seabed off the island of Goree, once a west African slaving post, never losing hope of locating the elusive vessels with a small group of graduate students from Dakar's Cheikh Anta Diop University.


Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-08-secrets-deep-senegal-slave-shipwreck.html#jCp
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Re: Secrets of the deep: Senegal's slave shipwreck detective
« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2017, 10:48:10 am »
Scroll down in that article for something which puts the American slave trade in perspective:



Only 3% of the slaves ended up in continental North America. The vast majority went to the Caribbean and Brazil.
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