Maritime Archeology of the Slave Trade: Past and Present Work, and Future Prospects

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelsey K.G. Dwyer.

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. The relationships cultivated by African enslaved women resulted in dissemination of new ethnic identities and social structures, which can be traced in the maritime archaeological record. Sources including artwork and ethno-historical accounts of enslaved women and their children demonstrate...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Celso Simbine.

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. This paper discusses the results of a recent investigation of ceramics from Mozambique Island. This contributes to and builds upon previous archaeological work that has made a start on describing and dating the ceramic sequence and linking it to the history of the southeast African coast over...

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James P. Delgado. Ayana Flewellen. Justin Dunavent. Kamau Sadiki. Jay Haigler. Stacye Hathorn. Kyle Lent. Joseph Grinnan. Austin Burkhard.

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 July 1860, the schooner Clotilda arrived off the coast of Mobile, Alabama with a human cargo of captives transported from the Kingdom of Dahomey. Transferred under cover of night to a steamboat on the Mobile River, they were sold into slavery in what is the last known American slave trading...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meredith Hardy.

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. Since 2015, SWP has developed a network of collaborators in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, devoted to exploring the history and legacies of slavery and freedom. From 2015-2017, NPS, as a partner of SWP, conducted surveys of submerged lands surrounding Buck Island Reef National Monument, St....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stefania Manfio.

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. Analyzing slavery through the lens of shipwrecks makes a significant contribution to the understanding of labor migration. The 'vessel' was a vehicle of culture contact, and the study of the artifacts found in the shipwreck can give us significant information on life at sea. Accordingly,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen C Lubkemann. Paul Gardullo. Gabrielle Miller. Kate McMahon. Jaco Boshoff. Kamau Sadiki. Jay Haigler. Cezar Mahumane. Celso Simbine. David Morgan. Ricardo Duarte. Yolanda Duarte. Raquel Machaqueiro. Meredith Hardy.

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. This paper offers a critical overview of maritime archeology’s limited history of engagement with the slave trade and offers an agenda for an invigorated and socially engaged maritime archeology of the slave trade that can contribute to debates in historiography and to decolonizing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gilson Rambelli. Julio Cesar da Silva Marins.

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. This research intends to locate the remains of the slave ship Camargo, that wrecked in the region of Bracuí, in Angra dos Reis Bay, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in December 1852. The wrecking of this ship, built in Maine (USA), was deliberate, after the clandestine landing of approximately 540...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paulo F. Bava-de-Camargo.

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. The LAqua Project - Salvaguarda e divulgação do património cultural subaquático do Concelho de Lagos - aims to locate the underwater archaeological finds that have been reported to the DGPC/CNANS, but that still lack georeferencing. It is also intended to evaluate its characteristics and the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cezar Sebastiao Mahumane. Kate McMahon. Stephen Lubkemann. Celso Simbine.

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. This paper reports on an archeological survey conducted on Inhaca Island (just south of Delagoa Bay) in southern Mozambique in October 2021—as the first archeological investigations since pilot work conducted over four decades ago. Drawing on archival research conducted as part of the Slave...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sean H. Reid. Oluseyi O. Agbelusi. Samuel Amartey. Francis M. Momoh.

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. This paper will assess the current state of the maritime and cultural landscapes of the region from a historical archaeological perspective and highlight their potential for present and future research. It centers on the spatial and material practices on Bunce Island and related trade sites in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ricardo Teixeira Duarte. Stephen Lubkemann. Yolanda Pinto Duarte. Hilario Madiquida. David Conlin. David Morgan. Celso Simbine. Cezar Mahumane.

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. Here we document the last quarter century struggle to protect and study Mozambique Island’s Underwater Cultural Heritage --by mobilizing a coalition of Mozambican archeologists and international collaborators and fostering local community involvement--to confront the formidable challenges and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kamau Sadiki.

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. Traditionally archaeologist and conservationist physically probe and interrogate the cultural materials of the TransAtlantic Slave Trade seeking insight and meaning into the peoples of the time period or the context in which the material exist. This physical approach is a intensely tactile and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nigel Sadler.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jay Haigler.

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. Competition for financial support of research projects is increasing. As the number of promising research projects increase over time, ‘single-source’ funding is not effective providing sustainability. For organizations with a vested interest in research, community engagement and capacity...