Communications and Media Resources · 2024

For Black Archaeologists, the Atlantic Ocean is an Ancestral Graveyard

August 2024

Atmos Earth News

A look at how Black maritime archaeologists are reframing underwater excavation of slave shipwrecks as a practice of ancestral memory and healing, approaching the Atlantic Ocean as a sacred graveyard for the millions of enslaved people who perished during the Middle Passage.

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