{"id":13075,"date":"2018-11-15T09:20:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T13:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mapsofworld.com\/answers\/?p=13075"},"modified":"2021-03-17T07:35:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T11:35:23","slug":"gruesome-facts-sao-jose-slave-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofworld.com\/answers\/history\/gruesome-facts-sao-jose-slave-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"What are The Gruesome Facts About S\u00e3o Jos\u00e9 – The Slave-Ship?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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Infographic Shows Map Depicting The Journey of ‘S\u00e3o Jos\u00e9’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

More than two centuries ago, on April 27,1794, a slave ship named ‘S\u00e3o Jos\u00e9’ , set out from the Kingdom of Portugal and was headed to Mozambique, and then to Brazil. It was the beginning of a major shift in Atlantic Slave Trade. Before this time, the European and American ships only traveled to west Africa to obtain slaves. The voyage of S\u00e3o Jos\u00e9 was one of the longest. It was a part of an increased effort to obtain more number of slaves, as the competition between European slave traders\u2019 was high.<\/p>\n

It is ironical, how the 18th<\/sup> century was both the time when US talked about independence, yet many were involved in expansion of slave trade.<\/p>\n

First Slave Shipwreck Ever Discovered <\/b><\/h3>\n

Captained by Manuel Jo\u00e3o Pereira, the S\u00e3o Jos\u00e9 did not reach Brazil. It had sunk off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa, after it got stuck between two reefs in Cape Town\u2019s Camps Bay and broke into pieces.<\/p>\n

It was only in 2015 that the shipwreck was discovered near the coast of Cape Town, in the bottom of the ocean, by the Slave Wrecks project. Studies are being conducted since then, to obtain brutal, significant and gruesome details about the people who were chained and about the ship that carried them.<\/p>\n

Other Horrifying Details About The Shipwreck:<\/b><\/h3>\n