The Maritime Archaeology of a Slave Ship: Searching the Ship Camargo - Angra dos Reis - Brazil

Summary

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 enslaved Africans from Mozambique. The development of this research, resulting from the partnership between the Laboratory of Archaeology of Aquatic Environments (LAAA-UFS) and the Laboratory of Oral History and Image (LABHOI-UFF), with the direct support from the Slave Wrecks Project – SWP strengthens the studies about the African Diaspora in Brazil. Besides adding to the studies about the maritime and terrestrial archaeological potential of the region, this research also operates as a legitimation tool for groups who have been excluded from the official local history, such as the maroon community “Quilombola de Santa Rita do Bracuí,” with its origins directly tied to the Camargo ship.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Maritime Archeology of the Slave Trade: Past and Present Work, and Future Prospects   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2023

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