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An investigation has concluded that a large copper piece recovered from the galleon ‘Santa Margarita’, shipwrecked in 1622, is the upper part of a submersible diving bell, predating Edmond Halley’s machine by seven decades
Nearly 200 years ago, the slave ship Guerrero sunk, killing forty-one Africans. The wreck vanished. Until now. A group of divers led by Ken Stewart, a Black man in his seventies, believe they found it in the Florida Keys. But in a state that banned critical race theory, telling this story is suddenly complicated.
The Alabama Public Radio news team was recently invited to take part in a public discussion on slavery in the state. I was joined on stage by William Green. He’s a member of the Clotilda Descendants Association.