They were not well taken care of. The slaving crews, it was all about making money and it was not about taking care of people and very sad. 295 people died during their time in key west. They were buried in graves on the south shore of the island. This is the story of three slave ships that were wound up in key west in 1860, the very tail end, the dying days of the transatlantics slave trade. In the late 1700s, a lot of people started questioning seriously be morality of it all in you started seeing the end of the trade itself. First in 1807, england outlaws the trade across the ocean, and in 1808, the United States did the same. That did not mean the people who were already here could get out of slavery. It only meant it was illegal to bring people across the ocean on ships. A clandestine slave trade started springing up and we started seeing illegal slave ships springing up in a steady stream from africa to the americas, bringing people even though it was illegal and they could be ca
Corey Malcom, who oversees the Florida Keys history department at the Key West Library, received a recognition plaque for his many years serving on the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
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“I recently visited the famous maritime museum on Greene Street. I started to wonder just how many of the ‘passengers’ chained in the hold of the Henrietta Marie were looking