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The Slave Wrecks Project, a partnership between the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and other institutions and organizations in Africa and the US, aims to redress academic and sociocultural imbalances in maritime archeology. Maritime archeology has tended to focus on the wrecks of rich and famous ships rather than ships that transported enslaved people. While people talk about the slave trade, it is hard to imagine. "...so we wanted to reduce it to human scale by really focusing on a single ship, on the people on the ship, and the story around the ship." In addition to locating wrecks, the Project developed programs to train people in Mozambique, Senegal, South Africa, and the Caribbean in diving, archeology and museum conservation and curation.
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