Researchers believe they've found a piece of a North American ship sailed by Nathaniel Gordon—a slave trader from America in the 1800s.
Archaeologists may have found the wreckage of a U.S. ship that sank with 500 slaves on board in the 19th century.
They believe it came from a North American ship sailed by Captain Nathaniel Gordon, a slave trader from America, who was the only person to ever be tried, convicted, and executed for engaging in the slave trade under the Piracy Law of 1820. Divers near Camps Bay, Cape Town, South Africa, investigating the site of the 18th century slave shipwreck of the São José-Paquete de Africa in 2015. Archaeologists may have found the wreckage of a U.S. ship that sank with 500 slaves on board in the 19th century.In 1851, Gordon was en route to bring the 500 enslaved Africans from Mozambique to Bracuí, in Angra dos Reis, Brazil, researchers said in a meeting held in Rio De Janeiro on July 7.
Police had been chasing the captain as a result. It is believed that Gordon purposefully sank the ship to cover his tracks, however, this is not confirmed.
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