Researchers Start 10-Day Evaluation of Remnants from the Last Slave Ship to Voyage to the United States More than 160 years after it was burnt and sunk,
Around 150 years ago, the upstate New York village of Saranac Lake became home to people looking for a cure to a highly contagious disease. Today, its healing legacy lives on.
“The records show that about 12,000 ships took 36,000 voyages to bring 12.5 million Africans to the Americas. Experts estimate that as many as a thousand of those ships wrecked,” explorer Tara Roberts said.