AP report: Slave ship artifact will soon leave the Smithsonian to return to its South African home
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A slave ship artifact will leave the Smithsonian to return to South Africa.
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A Smithsonian museum exhibit will remove an artifact from one of the first sunken slave ships ever recovered later this month. This remnant will depart the Smithsonian in Washington to return to its South African home. The artifact is part of an exhibit detailing the forced maritime journey of Africans across the Atlantic to slavery in the Americas.
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A Smithsonian museum exhibit will remove an artifact from one of the first sunken slave ships.
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