{"id":1900,"date":"2023-07-17T14:38:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T06:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/?p=1900"},"modified":"2023-07-17T14:38:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T06:38:52","slug":"archaeologists-discover-wreckage-of-notorious-slave-ship-off-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/artist\/archaeologists-discover-wreckage-of-notorious-slave-ship-off-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Archaeologists Discover Wreckage of Notorious Slave Ship Off Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">The wreckage of a 19th-century U.S. ship with more than 500 slaves on board may have been identified by archaeologists in the sea of \u200b\u200bAngra dos Rei, Brazil, according to the local news outlet TV Prefeito.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">Though researchers are still investigating, they believe it was a North American ship led by slave trader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\">Nathanial Gordon<\/a>, who was en route to deliver 500 enslaved Africans from Mozambique to Bracu\u00ed in Angra dos Reis in 1851.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">Gordon illegally participated in the slave trade to Brazil, for which he was later tried, convicted, and executed under the Piracy Law of 1820.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">Police had been chasing Gordon because the slave trade and the sailing of ships was illegal in Brazil and believe he may have sunk the ship to cover his tracks. He lived as a fugitive for the next decade before being hung for his crimes in the U.S. in 1862.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">Last year, archaeologists from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\">AfrOrigens Institute<\/a>, the Fluminense Federal University, the Federal University of Sergipe, and multiple North American research institutions started searching for the ship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">Brazil was built on the enslavement of millions of Africans and Indigenous peoples.\u00a0Research\u00a0conducted by Princeton University observes that, \u201cOf the 12 million enslaved Africans brought to the New World, almost half\u20145.5 million people\u2014were forcibly taken to Brazil as early as 1540 and until the 1860s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source\uff1ahttps:\/\/www.artnews.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wreckage of a 19th-century U.S. ship with more than 500 slaves on board may have been identified by archaeologists in the sea of \u200b\u200bAngra dos Rei, Brazil, according to the local news outlet TV Prefeito. 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