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SWP in the News: Time, "African American History Museum to Host Artifacts from Wrecked Slave Ship."

June 2, 2015

The African American history museum officially announced during the ceremony that it will host wreckage from a centuries-old slave ship that sank off the coast of South Africa with slaves on board. This marks the first time in history that archeologists have been able to positively document a wrecked vessel that was carrying slaves, according to Lonnie Bunch, the museum’s director.

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