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They Closed the Hatches: 600 Lives Buried by the Sea
They Closed the Hatches: 600 Lives Buried by the Sea
The ocean kept proof when paper would not: in 1790 a French ship, L'Aurore, went down off Mozambique with more than 600 enslaved Africans locked below deck, and every one drowned in darkness. How did four lost slave ships - sunk, burned, scuttled or erased - become the very archive historians and descendants use to reclaim names and lives?
In this episode, we trace the material evidence recovered from multiple wrecks and the work of the Slave Wrecks Project to show what survived the trade's official record. We follow discoveries from the…
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