Over 12,000 ships crossed the Atlantic Ocean carrying approximately 12.5 million enslaved Africans to the Americas.
Of those kidnapped people, an estimated 1.8 million died on the journey west, their bodies consigned to ocean waters.
The Slave Wrecks Project unites institutions and people from around the world-- scholars, archeologists, photographers, divers.
Their efforts help bring this history up from the depths and into the light.
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