North Carolina - Ports - Slave shipwrecks (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Valerie A. Johnson. Amber Pelham. Lynn Harris. Kim Kenyon. Justin McIntyre.

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. Several projects and research-in-progress address slave trade in North Carolina. Port records yield information about human cargoes entering local customs districts with details about demographics and venues, with strong links to West Indies slave trade depots. Other projects include...