Mozambican Maritime Landscapes of Slaving and Exchange: New Directions

Summary

This is an abstract from the "To Move Forward We Must Look Back: The Slave Wrecks Project at 10 Years" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This paper focuses on ongoing and emergent archaeological investigations that are opening new vistas on Mozambique Island’s global maritime interactions over the last millennium. Providing a brief overview of the program of collaboration between the Slave Wrecks Project and Eduardo Mondlane University that investigates submerged sites in conjunction with terrestrial ones in order to build a picture of an evolving “maritime landscape of slaving and exchange,” this presentation will highlight recent findings on two of these sites which offer different levels of resolution on Mozambique’s global maritime past: an “Arringa” in the remote Tete interior from which slaves were funneled through the island into both Atlantic and Indian Ocean trades at the end of the eighteenth century; and a site on the island itself that is recalibrating our understanding of over a millennium of Mozambican trade and social interaction across the Indian, and later Atlantic, Oceans.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• To Move Forward We Must Look Back: The Slave Wrecks Project at 10 Years   •
• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)

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Abstract Id(s): 33417