The Camargo, a ship that transported over 500 enslaved Africans from Mozambique to Brazil, was sunk in 1852 to erase evidence of the illegal transatlantic slave trade. Research on the wreck is now being conducted by archaeologists and community leaders descendants of those enslaved. The AfrOrigens Institute was created in 2023 to oversee this work and received a significant grant for the project. Historical awareness of the ship began in the 1990s when Martha Abreu uncovered links to local slave revolts, and she has since worked to document descendants' oral histories related to the Camargo.
Years after the transatlantic slave trade was criminalised, a ship known as the Camargo transported more than 500 enslaved Africans from Mozambique to Brazil and was sunk to destroy evidence of the crime.
Research on the Camargo is led by a multidisciplinary team including archaeologists and community leaders from Quilombo Santa Rita do Bracuí, initiated by the founding of the AfrOrigens Institute.
Awareness of the Camargo wreck began in the mid-1990s when historian Martha Abreu found newspaper clippings linking the ship to a slave revolt, revealing its historical significance.
Abreu initiated an oral history project to document descendants' stories from the Quilombo, connecting their accounts to her previous findings regarding the fatal voyage of the Camargo.
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