Caribbean

A recent discovery by marine archaeologists in the waters of the Caribbean has filled in some gaps about how the slave trade functioned in that part of the world several centuries ago. The researchers have now confirmed that two shipwrecks discovered off of Costa Rica’s southern Caribbean coast were Danish slave ships, which had been lost at sea while traveling through the region more than three centuries ago, transporting human cargo from across the Atlantic to support the infamous Trans-Atlantic slave trade of the Americas. Follow the Yellow Brick Road The ships in question were found off the coast of Cahuita National Park long ago, by fisherman who spotted them below the surface of the water in the early 1800s