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Seventeenth-Century Vehicle of the Middle Passage: Archaeological and Historical Investigations on the Henrietta Marie Shipwreck Site

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This study describes the archaeological investigations that have taken place at the wreck site of the English slave ship Henrietta Marie (1700) since its location in 1972. Information is provided on the methodology utilized during on-site archaeological data recovery, and the artifacts retrieved from the wreck site are described in detail. An account of complimentary documentary research on this wrecked slaver is also presented. Contemporary historical data gleaned from shipping lists, slaver’s logs, seamen’s wills and other sources are utilized to place Henrietta Marie within her proper context as a vehicle involved in the notorious transatlantic slave trade.

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  1. North Carolina Maritime Museum, 315 Front Street, Beaufort, NC, 28516, USA

    David D. Moore

  2. Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society, 200 Greene Street, Key West, FL, 22040, USA

    Corey Malcom

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Moore, D.D., Malcom, C. Seventeenth-Century Vehicle of the Middle Passage: Archaeological and Historical Investigations on the Henrietta Marie Shipwreck Site. Int J Histor Archaeol 12, 20–38 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-007-0039-1

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