The exhibition In Slavery's Wake: Black Freedom Making in the World will carry the story of the São José around the world.
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Learn more about our diverse work in Mozambique focusing on community building, education, and research.
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Black maritime archaeologists like Gabrielle Miller find both healing and terror as they excavate shipwrecks from the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
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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.”
February 7, 2022
Explorer Tara Roberts took up diving to learn about the human side of a tragic era. She wound up connecting with her family’s inspiring past.
August 22, 2019
A National Geographic explorer searches for forgotten wrecks that conceal family histories buried underwater.
May 22, 2019
The discovery carries intense personal meaning for an Alabama community of descendants of the ship’s survivors.
November 15, 2015
An interview with NMAAHC founding director Lonnie Bunch on the discovery of the Sao Jose.
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.