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Troubadour the Search, Discovery and Legacy of a Slave Ship (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Maritime Archeology of the Slave Trade: Past and Present Work, and Future Prospects", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1841 the Cuban slaver Troubadour wrecked off the coast of the Turks and Caicos Islands. This incident escaped modern historical scrutiny until 2000 when the Turks and Caicos National Museum included it in their UNESCO Slave Route Project entry. It wasn’t until it was listed along other...