CSPAN3 Slave Wrecks Project Interview September 6, 2016
Museum director lonnie bunch and curator paul talked with American History tv about the saga of the ship called sal jose. A ship that was heading from Mozambique Island in mozambique around the cape of good hope heading towards brazil, northeast brazil. Came close to capetown, south africa. Capetown was often a landing point for ships before they made their way across the long atlantic voyage, and this shape came too close to shore and got caught in swells in a storm and struck rocks about 100 yards, 350 feet or so from shore. The captain whose last name was tried to salvage what he could from...