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A Newly Digitized Logbook Documents Life and Death on a Slave Trading Ship

Source: Smithsonian Magazine

A slave ship’s logbook was recently found and sent to Georgetown University for preservation. Its record of enslaved lives lost during the ship’s voyage is both tragic and telling.

This entry was posted in A Matter of Life or Death and tagged Culture & Society, Current Events, History, People, Technology on October 1, 2020 by Jessica Volkening-Hayes.

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