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More than 1,000 slave ships involved in the transatlantic slave trade, during which more than 12 million Africans were enslaved, sank around the world, according to archival records. But fewer than a dozen have been located and documented as archaeological sites. Part of the reason is the lack of economic value in the ships … Mozambique
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/oct/16/divers-explore-18th-century-slave-ship-off-mozambique

Diving with a purpose.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/03/diving-with-a-purpose-black-divers-excavating-slave-shipwrecks

#Slavery #slaveships #Mozambique

https://archive.org/details/irishsurnamesandslaveownership

Irish Surnames And Slave Ownership

by
Liam Hogan

Publication date
2015-03-06

Topics
#irish, #ireland, #slavery, #history, #caribbean, 'unitedstatesofamerika, #blackchattelslavery, #slaveownership, #slaveships, #BightofBiafra, #Anomabu, #Ghana, #StHelena, #GrandCapeMount, #Liberia, #SierraLeone, #Africa, #Calabar, #Nigeria, #BananaIslands, #ÎlesdeLos, #IvoryCoast, #NewCalabar, #Dublin, #Mayo, #Carlow, #CountyWicklow, #Galway, #CountyDonegal, #CountyMeath, #CountyTyrone, #CountyAntrin, #CountyLouth, #Cork, #Waterford, #CountyDerry, #CountyLaois, #CountyTipperary, #CountySilgo, #Jamaica, #Antigua, #Honduras, #StKitts, #StKittsandNevis, #Grenada, #Dominica, #Waitukubuli, #Nevis, #VirginIslands, #StLucia, #Guyana, #Montserrat, #Bermuda, #TheBahamas, #Tobago, #StVincent, #StVincentandtheGrenadines, #Trinidad, #TrinidadandTobago, #Barbados, #Mauritius, #CapeofGoodHope, #SouthAfrica, #AntiguaandBarbuda, #unitedkingdom, #britishempire, #greatbritain, #colonialism, #imperialism, #Anguilla