A global team of maritime archaeologists is excavating the wreck of the slave ship Camargo off the coast of Brazil. This initiative seeks to reconnect Black communities with their maritime heritage. The ship, which sank in 1852, carried numerous enslaved individuals across the Atlantic. As divers prepare to disinter the wreck from its muddy resting place, the project symbolizes a broader effort to acknowledge and honor the lives lost during the transatlantic slave trade, integrating both historical study and community engagement to foster healing and understanding of a painful past.
On board, preparations were under way to disinter the Camargo, a two-masted brig that sank in 1852. A storm had buried the ship shortly after its discovery the previous December; now it was time to clear away the mud.
This was the slave ship Camargo, which carried five hundred souls across the Atlantic before it burned.
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