The Journal of Southern History, February 1st, 2003
The Slave Ship Fredensborg. By Leif Svalesen. Translated by Pat Shaw and Selena Winsnes. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c. 2000. Pp. 244. $45.00, ISBN 0-253-33777-1.)
Leif Svalesen has brought a slave ship and its crew back from the dead in a way that few histories of the slave trade have ever done. In 1974 Svalesen and a team of underwater archaeologists made a remarkable discovery off the coast of Norway-the wreckage of a slave ship that sank in 1768. That location may appear to be an unlikely one for a slave ship, and the story of that ship, its discovery, and the...
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