Black divers and archaeologists are uncovering and memorializing the transatlantic slave trade shipwrecked “Vessels of Enslavement”
By Chrislyn Laurie Laurore Photographs provided by Divers With A Purpose According to the captain’s account of the shipwreck, the L’Aurore, a French vessel, left present-day Mauritius for Mozambique in November 1789 to pick up enslaved people en route to its final destination, the French Caribbean. In January 1790, as enslaved people were boarding the […]











