Anyone catch this Sunday night? Was on 60 Minutes 
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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-slave-ship-60-minutes/
Two hundred years ago, a ship named for St. Joseph, sank in a terrible storm. Half the crew survived but the sea closed over more than 200 men, women and children who were locked below the deck. You would think a disaster like that would be legendary. But the St. Joseph was a slave ship. And the screams bursting from the hold were the cries of cargo.
"Bodies and souls laid side by side with no room to move, no sanitation. Many people on these voyages died."
Today, the silence of those lost voices is unbearable to Lonnie Bunch. He's the founding director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, now under construction in Washington.Bunch found that to tell history the Smithsonian would have to make history. And, so began a quest for the remains of a shipwreck in a land so unchanged that an 18th century slave would recognize it today as the last shore he called home.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-slave-ship-60-minutes/
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From "The Slave Ship" which aired on November 1, 2015
From "The Slave Ship" which aired on November 1, 2015
Two hundred years ago, a ship named for St. Joseph, sank in a terrible storm. Half the crew survived but the sea closed over more than 200 men, women and children who were locked below the deck. You would think a disaster like that would be legendary. But the St. Joseph was a slave ship. And the screams bursting from the hold were the cries of cargo.
"Bodies and souls laid side by side with no room to move, no sanitation. Many people on these voyages died."
Today, the silence of those lost voices is unbearable to Lonnie Bunch. He's the founding director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, now under construction in Washington.Bunch found that to tell history the Smithsonian would have to make history. And, so began a quest for the remains of a shipwreck in a land so unchanged that an 18th century slave would recognize it today as the last shore he called home.
18 Century Slave Port that oversaw the trafficking of over 400,000 slaves still standing and unchanged.
Lonnie Bunch:"A male in the late 18th century, early 19th century would go anywhere from $600 to $1,500, which is probably about, oh, $9,000 to $15,000 today.
Lonnie Bunch:"A male in the late 18th century, early 19th century would go anywhere from $600 to $1,500, which is probably about, oh, $9,000 to $15,000 today.
