Décio Muianga speaks about the slave trade from Mozambique Island to television program 60 minutes

The Slave Ship” is the title of an episode of American network CBS program 60 minutes that was aired on the 1st of November 2015. The episode tells the story of the slave trade from Mozambique Island to America. It focuses on the last trip of São José, a Portuguese ship that sunk two Centuries ago in the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa killing more than 200 men, women and children taken from Northern Mozambique.

Kaleidoscopio’s archaeologist Décio Muianga, spoke on the episode as a member of The Slave Wrecks Project, a group of researchers working on recreating the narrative of the slave trade and the ships that connected Africa to Europe and America.

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