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Archaeologists have identified the wreckage of a 19th-century slave ship off the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.
Archaeologists are still struggling to gather enough evidence before reaching the final conclusions about the size of the Maya slave trade.
According to Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (IANHA), the ship crashed about two nautical miles off the coast of Yucatan. After three years of research in Mexico, Cuba and Spain, the ship became known as the 19th century steamer “La Union”.
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The IAANA said in a statement: “Between 1855 and 1861, it carried an average of 25 and 30 Mayans per month to Cuba, who had been taken prisoner of war or deceived by false documents.
A diver finds the wreck.
(Photo by Helena Barba. / IANH)
The ship sank in a fire on September 9, 1861.
Mexico abolished slavery in 1829, although the practice continued for decades. “On May 6, 1861, President Benito Juarez issued a statement urging all Mayans to stop, but on September 19 of the same year, a steamer sank on the way to Cuba and caught fire. “Slavery continued without compliance with any law,” IANA said.
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Maya was enslaved during the Yucatan War, which lasted from 1847 to 1901. “Since 1877, Hispanic and Mexican alligators have been ordered to expel the captured Mayans in battle, so many have been sent to Cuba,” IANHA said. Noting the shortage of staff in the Cuban sugarcane plantation. “Each slave was sold to intermediaries for 25 pesos, and they could be sold in Havana for 160 pesos for men and 120 pesos for women.”
Wreckage was found in 2017. (Photo by Helena Barba / IANH)
Some of the Maya who lost their property in the war were also given false papers showing that they would become immigrants in Cuba, just to become slaves.
“La Union” was a Spanish company called Zangroniz Harmonos Compeana, founded in 1854 in Havana. The following year he was granted the right to trade in Mexico. “On October 60, 1860, a year before his sinking, the steamer surprised 29 people, including boys and girls, between the ages of 7 and 10, but it was not enough to end the smuggling by public ridicule. La Unin ‘,’ INA said.
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When “La Union” half of its 80 crew members drowned and 60 passengers lost their lives. These figures do not include the Maya slaves transported on the ship, who were considered merchants.
After the sinking, “the Mexican government paid more attention to the exploration of ports to prevent the movement of people on the routes to Cuba,” IANHA said.
According to the IAAANH, another Zangroni hormone y compae steamer, “Mexico”, was also involved in the slave trade.
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Mexico continues to reveal new aspects of its history. Earlier this year, a 2,000-year-old “map of the volcano” was found carved on a huge volcanic rock in Kolima.
INAH also recently released new details of a mysterious shipbreak discovered off the coast of Mexico in the 18th century.
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