Worldly Tales: Shipwrecks And Atlantic Connections

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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Maritime Archaeology in West Africa", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

When was Australia “discovered” by the European? When did the European trade with America become more significant? How did the Industrial Revolution change the world? These are some of the questions that we believe are possible to answer without leaving the beaches of Cape Verde.

The Cape Verde archipelago was a very strategic place in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, not only for the Portuguese, but as well for so many other countries, from its discovery in the 15th century until the 19th century, when the Atlantic slave trade was suppressed and the new steam boats made these islands no longer needed.

Hundreds of shipwrecks in the Cape Verde waters tell us hundreds of different stories, from different countries, different people with different dreams. However, together, all those shipwrecks can go far beyond and tell us a significant part of the world history.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2023   •
• Maritime Archaeology in West Africa

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Contact(s): Nicole Haddow