Black archaeologists join team investigating off the coast of Mozambique as part of global project to identify and tell stories of wrecked ships involved in transatlantic slave trade
The dive team set out to document the wreck, thought to be the 18th-century French slave ship L‘Aurore. All photographs by Yuri Sanada/Aventuras Produções
The goal of today’s dive is to document sections of the ship, identify which part of the vessel they are working on and gather information on its construction and the shipwrecking process. As well as being an important symbol of resistance, L’Aurore is archaeologically significant because it is so well preserved. “It may be the best 18th-century slave ship example,” says Marc-André Bernier, a Canadian underwater archaeologist and the developer of SWP’s training programme, adding that the research will help archaeologists understand the structure of other slave ships and their living conditions.
SWP is working to develop similar centres in Senegal and Brazil where SWP’s partners have identified other slave wrecks. In December 2023, divers located the lost wreck of the Camargoa ship that archaeologists believe was deliberately burned and sunk by the only American slave trader to have been executed for trafficking enslaved Africans.
The country is a former colony of Portugal, one of the earliest and biggest participants in the global slave trade.Former slave-trading powers have largely failed to confront their past. But earlier this year Portuguese president, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, said the country needed toIn a makeshift classroom at a guest house in Stone Town, where most of the team are staying,
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