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Gr 8 Up—In his search for the lost treasure of the Nuestra Señora de Atocha in 1972, "Moe" Molinar uncovered a mound of iron shackles on the ocean floor. His discovery, however, didn't lead marine archaeologists to the sunken Spanish ship but rather to the Henrietta Marie, an English slave ship that sank off the coast of Key West, FL, almost 300 years prior. Twenty years later, journalist and scuba diver Cottman was asked to chronicle the ship's history, but what started out as a routine assignment turned into something much more personal for the writer: it bec...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

The ship Henrietta Marie transported enslaved Africans from 1698 until its sinking in 1700. The African American author traces the ship...Log In or Sign Up to Read More