US provides R7 million grant to help conserve slave ship wreck near Cape Town
11 October 2016 - 20:53
The US embassy has granted R7 million to help conserve the São José slave ship wreck site located off the shores of Cape Town. The São José‚ a Portuguese vessel‚ was carrying slaves from Mozambique top Brazil when it sank off the Cape coast in 1794. It is understood that 212 of the 400 to 500 African slaves on board the ship perished in the disaster.
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