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Researchers find historic slave ship wreck
AP via Canoe ^
| November 25, 2008
| Randolph Schmid
Posted on 11/25/2008 4:22:25 PM PST by Squawk 8888
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To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
11/25/2008 4:23:13 PM PST
by
Squawk 8888
(TSA and DHS are jobs programs for people who are not smart enough to flip burgers)
To: Squawk 8888
Were some of the leg irons engraved with Obama LTD ?
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posted on
11/25/2008 4:25:05 PM PST
by
Squantos
(Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
To: Squawk 8888
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.
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posted on
11/25/2008 4:28:07 PM PST
by
padre35
(You shall not ignore the laws of God, the Market, the Jungle, and Reciprocity Rm10.10)
To: Squawk 8888
I’ll bet it was easy to find...they just had to follow the trail of sharks that still patrol the seas.
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posted on
11/25/2008 4:31:36 PM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: Squawk 8888
“FRAAGMENTS OF LETTERING ON THE SHIP WERE STILL VISIBLE”
They could just make out “Obama Inc” but the rest was unreadable...
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posted on
11/25/2008 4:38:39 PM PST
by
tubebender
(Retirement...The art and science of Killing time before it Kills you...)
To: Squawk 8888
I am positive the actions of the US Navy in this era patrolling these waters to stop slavery and piracy will be completed over looked.
Doesn't fit the template of evil white Americans
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posted on
11/25/2008 5:18:57 PM PST
by
Popman
(Dont worry Barney Frank has your ass-ets covered!!!)
To: Popman
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.
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posted on
11/25/2008 5:23:52 PM PST
by
Squawk 8888
(TSA and DHS are jobs programs for people who are not smart enough to flip burgers)
To: Squawk 8888
But after word got out "people really got on board with it," he said I hate nautical puns.
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posted on
11/25/2008 5:28:32 PM PST
by
Crawdad
(Barack Obama hates black people.)
To: Squawk 8888
From 1798 to 1819 the fledgling US Navy was battling slavery and piracy in its own territory, in the Caribbean, and on the high seas. In 1820, when slavery and piracy were equated, it was with the clear understanding that many of the perpetrators of one were also guilty of the other. In the Caribbean, the US Navy was attempting to establish law and order and bring both piracy and slavery to an end. More specifically, with regard to Chippewa, Trouvadore, and Onkahye, these are a manifestation of what was happening on a larger scale.
Link
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posted on
11/25/2008 5:31:48 PM PST
by
Popman
(Dont worry Barney Frank has your ass-ets covered!!!)
To: Squawk 8888
Nothing to see here, move along.
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posted on
11/25/2008 5:32:30 PM PST
by
wxgesr
(I want to be the first person to surf on another planet!)
To: Squawk 8888
Interesting, the timing is even more interesting.
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posted on
11/25/2008 5:36:42 PM PST
by
driftdiver
(No More Obama! - The corruption has not changed despite all our hopes.)
To: Squawk 8888
All they had to do was watch the tracks of the millions of sharks milling around waiting for their next meal. Or were they ACLU attorneys?
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posted on
11/25/2008 6:11:23 PM PST
by
dbacks
(God help the USA.)
To: Squantos
Yeah, good question Mine is: Who has to ‘’apologize’’ for this?
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posted on
11/25/2008 6:30:17 PM PST
by
Longtom
To: Squantos
Yeah, good question Mine is: Who has to ‘’apologize’’ for this?
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posted on
11/25/2008 6:30:33 PM PST
by
Longtom
To: Squawk 8888
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.
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posted on
11/25/2008 6:59:42 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: Squawk 8888; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
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posted on
11/25/2008 7:00:17 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Squawk 8888
NOAA provided about $178,000 to assist the research. Hmm.
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posted on
11/25/2008 7:53:55 PM PST
by
TChad
To: SunkenCiv
This is one of the few wreckage sites of a confirmed slave ship that has been discovered.
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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posted on
11/25/2008 11:25:14 PM PST
by
Stonewall Jackson
(We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.-Robert E.Lee)
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