Author: Julian Lucas

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☆Dredging Up the Ghostly Secrets of Slave Ships

The New Yorker • 24 Feb 2025 • ~6650 words

Julian Lucas writes about the efforts of maritime archeologists and the Slave Wrecks Project to locate and excavate slave shipwrecks, focusing on the Camargo and its connections to the transatlantic slave trade and Brazil. He explores the historical context of the slave trade, th...