Drawing by Frank Besse of archaeologically-recovered leg shackles. The Henrietta Marie transported about 200 slaves from the Bight of Biafra to Jamaica in 1699-1700. For details, see David Moore, Site Report: Historical and Archaeological Investigation of the Shipwreck Henrietta Marie (Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society, 1997).

Slide of drawing, courtesy of David Moore, North Carolina Maritime Museum.

Besse, Frank

English

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Atlantic

"Shackles from the Henrietta Marie", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed December 1, 2023, http://www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/2613