Museum director lonnie bunch and curator paul talked with American History tv about the saga of the ship called sal jose. A ship that was heading from Mozambique Island in mozambique around the cape of good hope heading towards brazil, northeast brazil. Came close to capetown, south africa. Capetown was often a landing point for ships before they made their way across the long atlantic voyage, and this shape came too close to shore and got caught in swells in a storm and struck rocks about 100 yards, 350 feet or so from shore. The captain whose last name was tried to salvage what he could from the crew. They attempted a rescue from ship to shore. He rescued himself. He rescued along with the crew. He rescued about half of the 400 enslaved mozambiquans aboard. The other half have been captured from the interior of africa and brought on board the the slave trade. In many ways history museums tend to tell the grand story, and often forget to humanize them. Our goal was to say how do we hu
Exhibition. Museum director lonnie bunch and paul gar dull lo talk about the saga of the ship called sal jose. Take us back to december 27th, 1794 camps bay off south africa and the final hours of the sal jose. On december 27th, 1794, a ship that was heading from Mozambique Island around the cape of good hope heading towards brazil, northeast brazil, came close to capetown, south africa. Capetown was often a landing point for ships before they made their way across the long atlantic voyage. This ship came to close to shore and got call in swells in a storm and struck rocks about 100 yards, 350 feet or so from shore. The captain was captaining the ship called the sal jose tried to salvage what he could from the crew. They attempted a rescue from ship to shore. He rescued himself. He rescued along with the crew he rescued about half of the 400 enslaved mozambiquens were all aboard and the other half captured from the interior of africa and brought on board in early december perished in t
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