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June 15, 2026
SWP in the New: Submerged in the Indian Ocean, Documentary
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February 27, 2025
SWP in the News: The New Yorker, “Dredging Up the Ghostly Secrets of Slave Ships”
A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecks—and reconnecting Black communities to the deep.
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October 16, 2024
SWP in the News: The Guardian, “‘People did not go quietly’: divers explore wreck of 18th-century slave ship where mutiny took place”
‘People did not go quietly’: divers explore wreck of 18th-century slave ship where mutiny took place.
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August 24, 2024
SWP in the News: Atmos, “For Black Archaeologists, The Atlantic Ocean is an Ancestral Graveyard”
Black maritime archaeologists like Gabrielle Miller find both healing and terror as they excavate shipwrecks from the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
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November 17, 2023
SWP in the News: CBS News, “Archeologists discover anchor belonging to early 20th century shipwreck in Biscayne National Park.”
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.
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November 17, 2022
SWP in the News: Washington Post, “African scuba divers rewrite a ‘settlers’ narrative of the slave trade”
Off the coast of Senegal, a SWP program is training drivers to explore and document sunken slave ships.
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October 14, 2022
SWP in the News: New York Times, “A Smithsonian Museum Sharpens Focus on the History of Slavery.”
The institution’s latest leader “knew that slavery had to be at the heart of the museum.”
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February 7, 2022
SWP in the News: National Geographic, “The search for lost slave ships led this diver on an extraordinary journey.”
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.
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August 22, 2019
SWP in the News: National Geographic, “Diving into the unfolding history of wrecked slave ships.”
A National Geographic explorer searches for forgotten wrecks that conceal family histories buried underwater.
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