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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 ... a key chapter in Afro-Costa Rican heritage more than 300 years after the ships’ arrival. The wrecks lie off the coast ...
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Haunting slave ships found off coast of national park 300 years later: 'Very convincing'
"Clay pipes were rarely used for more than five years." Pictures also show the remarkable yellow bricks that survived the shipwreck, which were produced in Flensburg "for use in Denmark and in the ...