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Sailing ship · 1794

São José Paquete de África

Clifton, Cape Town, South Africa

São José Paquete de África
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History

A Portuguese slave ship wrecked with about 500 people from Mozambique on board. It is the first wreck of a ship that sank with enslaved people aboard ever studied.

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