Wreck rewrites history

03 June 2015 - 02:02
By Bobby Jordan

A 221-year-old shipwreck discovered just 100m off Cape Town's Clifton beach could help rewrite the history of the slave trade in South Africa. So say several historians and archaeologists who yesterday gathered in Cape Town to present their collective findings on the São José-Paquete de Africa wreck.

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