A surprising way to think about slavery
A surprising way to think about slavery
Historian and museum director Lonnie Bunch shows Scott Pelley a capital of the slave trade and explains why slavery is a story of strength in survival
On 60 Minutes this week, Scott Pelley and his team travel to a beautiful but haunted place -- Mozambique Island, off the coast of Africa, where more than 400,000 slaves were trafficked.
Lonnie Bunch, founding director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, which is due to open in September, arrived there on a quest to better understand how kidnapped Africans were brought to the New World.
With the help of maritime anthropologists, researchers and divers from the Slave Wrecks Project, he learned of the Sao Jose, a Portuguese ship that sank two centuries ago killing nearly half its human cargo: more than 200 men, women and children who were locked below the deck.
In the Overtime video above, 60 Minutes tours the St. Sebastian Fortress with Bunch. The fort protected the Portuguese trade and held some slaves before they were shipped abroad.
I wanted to really try and figure out how minute-by-minute felt, producer Nicole Young tells Overtime Editor Ann Silvio. What were you thinking? What were you saying to your sister or your mother or your husband or your child to, in some way, comfort them?
Historian and museum director Lonnie Bunch shows Scott Pelley a capital of the slave trade and explains why slavery is a story of strength in survival
On 60 Minutes this week, Scott Pelley and his team travel to a beautiful but haunted place -- Mozambique Island, off the coast of Africa, where more than 400,000 slaves were trafficked.
Lonnie Bunch, founding director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, which is due to open in September, arrived there on a quest to better understand how kidnapped Africans were brought to the New World.
With the help of maritime anthropologists, researchers and divers from the Slave Wrecks Project, he learned of the Sao Jose, a Portuguese ship that sank two centuries ago killing nearly half its human cargo: more than 200 men, women and children who were locked below the deck.
In the Overtime video above, 60 Minutes tours the St. Sebastian Fortress with Bunch. The fort protected the Portuguese trade and held some slaves before they were shipped abroad.
I wanted to really try and figure out how minute-by-minute felt, producer Nicole Young tells Overtime Editor Ann Silvio. What were you thinking? What were you saying to your sister or your mother or your husband or your child to, in some way, comfort them?
