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DOCUMENT Citation Only Phillip J Turner. Sophie Cannon. Sarah DeLand. James P Delgado. David Eltis. Patrick N Halpin. Michael I Kanu. Charlotte S Sussman. Ole Varmer. Cindy L Van Dover.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Integrating Cultural Heritage Into The Work Of The Ocean Foundation" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. More than 12.5 million Africans were held captive on 40,000+ voyages during the transatlantic slave trade. Many did not survive the voyage and the Atlantic seabed became their final resting place. Member States of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) have a duty to protect objects of an archaeological...