Learn more about our diverse work in Mozambique focusing on community building, education, and research.
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Explore the different ways communities continue to commemorate and research the history and memory of the São José.
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Analisa Freitas reflects on her summer working as an Intern with the Slave Wrecks Project in Biscayne National Park.
Read MoreNovember 29, 2023
As one of the newest members of the SWP network, AfrOrigens aims to bring Afro-descendant communities together with interdisciplinary researchers to educate the public. AfrOrigens and SWP are working in Brazil to understand the history of the slave ship Camargo and the descendants who helped found the Quilombo Santa Rita do Bracuí.
November 29, 2023
By Raquel Machaqueiro, Ph.D. Learn about the life and career of José António Pereira, owner of the São José Paquete d’África. Studying Pereira's life offers insight into the people who financed and profited off of the transatlantic slave trade.
November 28, 2023
Analisa Freitas reflects on her summer working as an Intern with the Slave Wrecks Project in Biscayne National Park.
November 28, 2023
Learn more about our diverse work in Mozambique focusing on community building, education, and research.
November 17, 2023
Archeologists have discovered an anchor dating back to a 19th-century steamship that was swept away in an early 1900s hurricane in Biscayne National Park over the summer.
October 5, 2023
Explore the different ways communities continue to commemorate and research the history and memory of the São José.
October 5, 2023
SWP was launched in 2008 as the “African Slave Wrecks and Diaspora Heritage Routes Project,” as a collaboration coordinated by The George Washington University and its two co-founding partners: the U.S. National Park Service-Submerged Resources Center and IZIKO Museums of South Africa. The project grew over time including the addition of new partners and additional archeological locations.
November 17, 2022
Off the coast of Senegal, a SWP program is training drivers to explore and document sunken slave ships.
October 14, 2022
The institution’s latest leader “knew that slavery had to be at the heart of the museum.”