Shackles Recovered from Slave Ship Henrietta Marie

Description

Photo of archaeologically-recovered 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).

Language

English

Rights

Image is in the public domain. Metadata is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.

Identifier

F007

Spatial Coverage

Atlantic

Item sets

Slave Ships & the Atlantic Crossing (Middle Passage)

Citation

"Shackles Recovered from Slave Ship Henrietta Marie", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed September 30, 2023, http://www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/2614

Photo of archaeologically-recovered 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).