Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
There have been very few shipwrecks found that were part of the global slave trade. In 2008, the Slave Wrecks Project began the search for more of the sunken ships. One in particular was the São José Paquete d’Africa, which foundered in 1794 off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa.
Marine archaeologist Jaco Boshoff studied documents and discovered that a misidentified shipwreck discovered in the early 1980s was actually the São José.An archival document found in the Arquivo Historico Ultramarino archive in Lisbon, Portugal, by Dr Lubkemann states that the São José left Lisbon on 27 April 1794 for Mozambique via Cape Town with 1,400 iron ballast bars in its cargo. According to Boshoff, the members of the…
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