What the Bible really says about Slavery:
This and other information
on the issue of Slavery
as it applies to History and Religion
2nd Ed
by Elreta Dodds
with Noreta Dennard
Posted on 11/25/2008 4:22:25 PM PST by Squawk 8888
WASHINGTON - Marine archeologists have found the remains of a slave ship wrecked off the Turks and Caicos Islands in 1841, an accident that set free the ancestors of many current residents of those islands.
Some 192 Africans survived the sinking of the Spanish ship Trouvadore off the British-ruled islands, where the slave trade was banned.
Over the years the ship had been forgotten, said researcher Don Keith, so when the discovery connected the ship to current residents the first response "was a kind of shock, a lack of comprehension," he explained in a briefing organized by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
But after word got out "people really got on board with it," he said, and the local museum has assisted the researchers. He said this is the only known wreck of a ship engaged in the illegal slave trade.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnews.canoe.ca ...
May be of interest...
Were some of the leg irons engraved with Obama LTD ?
It is an interesting story, but the details are sketchy, It would be good if they can find some better evidence of the origins and identity of the ship.
I’ll bet it was easy to find...they just had to follow the trail of sharks that still patrol the seas.
They could just make out “Obama Inc” but the rest was unreadable...
Doesn't fit the template of evil white Americans
Actually, it was the Royal Navy that was fighting the slavers in 1841. I’m not sure what the American policy was at the time, IIRC there was still slavery at the time but I think importing more slaves was illegal. What I do recall is that many Carribean nations owe a lot of their heritage to the British fight against the slavers; The town of Freeport in the Bahamas got its name from the fact that the British turned loose several “cargoes” there.
I hate nautical puns.
Nothing to see here, move along.
Interesting, the timing is even more interesting.
Yeah, good question Mine is: Who has to ‘’apologize’’ for this?
Yeah, good question Mine is: Who has to ‘’apologize’’ for this?
The Constitution forbade Congress from passing any law stopping the slave trade before 1808, but they did so immediately once they were allowed to. Cuba was a Spanish colony where slavery was still practiced so that may have been the destination.
What the Bible really says about Slavery:
This and other information
on the issue of Slavery
as it applies to History and Religion
2nd Ed
by Elreta Dodds
with Noreta Dennard
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Hmm.
One of the most famous is the Whydah Gally, a 300-ton slave galleon that was captured by the pirate Black Sam Bellamy and converted into his flagship. The vessel ran aground and sank in a storm off Cape Cod in 1717, with the loss of most of its crew (there are legends that Black Sam survived the sinking, but these have never been confirmed).
In 1984, underwater explorer Barry Clifford rediscovered the wreck by utilizing a map drawn by the Massachussets Bay Colony government of the wrecksite. Many of the thousands of artifacts recovered from the site are on display at the Expedition Whydah Sea-Lab & Learning Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
To date,the Whydah is the only golden-age pirate ship to be recovered in modern times.
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