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A shipwreck hidden off an iconic Cape Town beach reveals the horrors of the slave trade

11 July 2025 by CapeTownNewsReader

For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a tragic story of enslavement and commerce from the time of the trans-Atlantic …Read More at Source

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