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Monday, August 30, 2004
Update - Searching for "Guerrero" - New article
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Divers search for slave ship 'Guerrero' off Key Largo Florida
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JENNIFER BABSON
KEY LARGO, Florida (29 August 2004) -- It was a passage like thousands of others made in the shadow of an untamed island chain off Cuba -- 561 Africans shackled below, the Spanish ship that claimed them gliding under cover of darkness toward a colony still fueled by the slave trade.
On the night of Dec. 19, 1827, however, an otherwise routine haul of human cargo on the Spanish-flagged Guerrero turned into a shipwreck that archaeologists and others are literally trying to piece together nearly 200 years later...
Continues here.
Divers search for slave ship 'Guerrero' off Key Largo Florida
Powered by CDNN - CYBER DIVER News Networkby
JENNIFER BABSON
KEY LARGO, Florida (29 August 2004) -- It was a passage like thousands of others made in the shadow of an untamed island chain off Cuba -- 561 Africans shackled below, the Spanish ship that claimed them gliding under cover of darkness toward a colony still fueled by the slave trade.
On the night of Dec. 19, 1827, however, an otherwise routine haul of human cargo on the Spanish-flagged Guerrero turned into a shipwreck that archaeologists and others are literally trying to piece together nearly 200 years later...
Continues here.
