Written by AfrOrigens and Emerson Mec to explain the process of collecting water from the site of the Camargo for inclusion in the In Slavery’s Wake exhibition in Rio de Janeiro.
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Descendants of the enslaved people from the Santa Rita do Bracuí farm now form the Quilombo do Bracuí and fight to remain on the land of their ancestors. The work of the Slave Wrecks Project and its partners in Brazil – AfrOrigens and the quilombo itself, ensures that this work is also about reclamation, about healing, and about empowerment.
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I often saw archaeologists, divers, and researchers coming from all over the world to the island to study our maritime cultural heritage I would watch them and think “what is the world was like beyond the coast?” I wanted to do the same. I didn't know that a seed was being planted in me.
Read MoreOctober 16, 2024
‘People did not go quietly’: divers explore wreck of 18th-century slave ship where mutiny took place.
August 24, 2024
Black maritime archaeologists like Gabrielle Miller find both healing and terror as they excavate shipwrecks from the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
November 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.