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Featured Blog: History of the Slave Wrecks Project

SWP was launched in 2008 as the “African Slave Wrecks and Diaspora Heritage Routes Project,” as a collaboration coordinated by The George Washington University, with its two co-founding partners, the United States National Park Service-Submerged Resources Center and IZIKO Museums of South Africa. In 2011, Diving With a Purpose and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) joined the project, which was renamed the Slave Wrecks Project (SWP) in 2015.

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Spotlight: Centering Community Voices in Africatown

Recording Oral Histories from Zora Neale Hurston and Cudjo Lewis to the Unfinished Conversations Series

We are highlighting two stories of recording oral histories in Africatown, Alabama. “Voices of Africatown” tells the story of Zora Neale Hurston’s attempt to document the history of Africatown residents in the early 1900s. “Unfinished Conversations” explores modern oral histories in the same community.

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This image shows a painting of a ship painted in brown against a light blue background. This ship is upside down. Written in the bottom left corner is "Slave Trade"