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A shipwreck hidden off an iconic Cape Town beach reveals the horrors of the slave trade
For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...
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How Louisiana’s Cane River region nurtured a Creole culture that survived 300 years of change
The Cane River flows through northwest Louisiana where Caddo Indians once farmed corn and hunted deer. French explorer Louis ...
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How runaway slaves created a military fortress in Spanish Florida that terrified British slaveholders
Wikimedia Commons/Deisenbe Fort Mose Fort Mose became the first free Black settlement in what is now the United States in ...