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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20180514:05:40:00

somewhere around 100,000 africans were brought here and sold into slavery. in 2014 an archaeology. dig found remnants where the ships arrived. originally built in 1767 the wharf held up to six ships and each held up to 600 africans apiece. if you just kind of look out you can see ft. sumter in the distance. where the civil war began. that boat out there, a couple hundred years ago, that likely could have been a slave ship. the ships came in and would land here. this is the largest wharf in the colonies. you can see the boats coming in on the same path that the 800 plus slave ships in bringing the africans here. 800 plus slave ships it mess ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20180514:02:40:00

where around 100,000 africas were brought here and sold directly into slavery. in 2014 an archaeological dig found remnants of the whav where the ships arrived. originally built in 1767, the whav could hold up to six ships at a time. and the ships held upwards of 600 africans apiece. and then if you just kind of look out you can see ft. sumter where the civil war began. a couple years ago that likely that boat could have been a slave ship. the ships would come in and land here. this is the largest wharf in the colonies. you can still see boats coming in along the same path that the 800 plus slave ships took in bringing enslaved africans here. 800 plus slave ships it mess was my head believing it was ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20180514:01:57:00

bar dave: in 1497, there was a man by the name of john cabot. john cabot sailed the atlantic on his boat the matthew from bristol, england to bonavista bay. and when he arrived he saw lots of activity in our water. now he didn t know what was going on, but he dropped his bucket down to fill it up with water, and when it came up to the top of the boat, it was filled right to the rim with cod fish. now word got out fast how plentiful the fish were in our waters that they traveled from all over to settle here, and to catch the fish, salt the fish, trade the fish all around the world as a means of survival. in one place in particular that we traded with was with jamaica. and in jamaica, they make rum, and we love rum. we love it so much that we would actually get down on that wharf and we d kiss the fish goodbye knowing that it was coming back to us in the way of rum. so in keeping with that time, and honor tradition, i do have a little buddy for you to meet. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20180514:05:41:00

Was my head to see it was here. my great, great, great with grandmother was deposited here. the fact that we are building this museum on the spot where so many enslaved africans landed and you know we ll be able to pay homage respect and ancestors and sacrifices and contributions. the one thing america has never done is confronted its history of enslaving african, thousand that act and those acts are affecting the current day. i think that museum like this are hopefully a big part of like saying don t be afraid. don t be scared let s just talk about it. you re absolutely right. slave labor built this city, this country and half of that labor kind of landed right here. even from an american history standpoint this is really important. yeah. important space. turns out that this wharf is ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20180514:05:39:00

also she told me i sucked. oh, man. just down the street from the market is the wharf which is getting a proper historical reclamgs. this place played a major role in american history and it s the future site of a $75 million complex called the international african-american museum. the founder of the new museum is michael moore. nope not that michael moore. this michael moore is the great great grandson of robert smalls wab a former enslaved african civil war hero with the best escape story ever. oh, just wait. this is the epicenter of the trans-atlantic slave trade, the spot where almost half the enslaved africans arrived and really was the space where you know the original capitalization of the united states economy occurred. the former gadsend wharf. ....

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