There is overwhelming evidence, including wreckage from slave ship sites, to prove that slave ships and transatlantic slave trading existed.
stated on June 20, 2022 in an Instagram postResearchers recovered timbers from the wreckage of The Clotilda, May 4, 2022.
PolitiFact contacted the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture to respond to the claim. A museum spokesperson pointed to the, a collaborative, international initiative between organizations in America, Africa and the Carribean to research and study the global slave trade"particularly through the lens of slave shipwrecks."
The project combines"maritime and historical archaeology, history and anthropology" to research the international slave trade. National Geographic provided an intricate look at the project’s work to dive for and research historical maritime sites of wreckage.Social media users questioned the existence of slave ships and the transatlantic slave trade.
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