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portuguese ship, stopped in mozambique, headed to brazil, crashed in south africa. artifacts will be on display in DC.
also interesting that the ship was bringing slaves from east africa.
interesting that we typically assume all in the west acme from west africa, but sad at the fact u could basically go anywhere and find ppl selling each other smh
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Shackled in the ship’s hold were between 400 and 500 slaves, pressed flesh to flesh with their backs on the floor. With the exception of daily breaks to exercise, the slaves were to spend the bulk of the estimated four-month journey from the Indian Ocean across the vast South Atlantic in the dark of the hold.
In the end, their journey lasted only 24 days. Buffeted by strong winds, the ship, the São José Paquete Africa, rounded the treacherous Cape of Good Hope and came apart violently on two reefs not far from Cape Town and only 100 yards from shore, but in deep, turbulent water. The Portuguese captain, crew and half of the slaves survived. An estimated 212 slaves did not, and perished in the sea.
On Tuesday, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African-American History and Culture, along with the Iziko Museums of South Africa, the Slave Wrecks Project, and other partners, will announce in Cape Town that the remnants of the São José have been found, right where the ship went down, in full view of Lion’s Head Mountain. It is the first time, researchers involved in the project say, that the wreckage of a slaving ship that went down with slaves aboard has been recovered.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/01/world/africa/tortuous-history-traced-in-sunken-slave-ship-found-off-south-africa.html?_r=0
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The National Archives, in cooperation with with FamilySearch International, a subsidiary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Smithsonian Institution, is releasing 1.5 million digitized images that contain the names of up to 4 million former slaves collected by agents of the Freedman’s Bureau at the end of the Civil War.
The release of information, called a “treasure trove,” by genealogical groups, coincides with the 150th anniversary of the announcement of the abolition of slavery in Texas. On June 19, 1865 a Union general in Galveston, read aloud the contents of “General Order No. 3″, announcing the total emancipation of slaves, even though the Emancipation Proclamation has gone into effect two and a half years earlier.
The Freedmen’s Bureau was organized to assist freedmen in 15 states and the District of Columbia after the war. The bureau opened schools, managed hospitals and gave support to an estimated 4 million slaves. The 1.5 million images released Friday are from the actual reports filed by the 900 agents of the Freedmen’s Bureau who were located across the country.
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“Now 1.5 million images have been scanned in and digitized and we estimate that they contain the names of up to 4 million slaves.
“We would like to have all of the names of the Freedmen indexed by the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture,” Gentry said. “By the Fall of 2016 when the museum is scheduled to open.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2015/06/19/freedmens-bureau-records-of-4-million-former-slaves-released-today/
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