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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 ...
Haunting slave ships found off coast of national park 300 years later: 'Very convincing'
Divers recently identified two Danish slave ships, Fridericus Quartus and Christianus Quintus, during an excavation near ...