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Marine Art as a Research Tool for Investigating Cask Assemblages Found on Eighteenth Century Shipwrecks Identified as Slave-Trade Ships (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Casks were containers for provisions, supplies, and trade goods aboard ships in the Atlantic world for over 2000 years. On eighteenth century ships engaged in the “Triangle of Trade” the number, capacities, and contents of casks carried depended on stage of the voyage. Identifying a historic shipwreck as a slave-trade vessel may...