Bell from the Henrietta Marie, 1699, bronze, 14 1/2 inches tall, 13 1/2 inches diameter, Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society, Key West, Florida, 86.08.655

RICHMOND, VA.- On view through May 18, 2007, the University of Richmond Museums presents the exhibition, A Slave Ship Speaks: The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie. Discovered by divers in 1972 and fully excavated in 1983, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie is believed to be the world’s largest source of tangible objects from the early years of the slave trade. Before sinking in 1700, in an area thirty-five miles west of Key West, Florida, the ship carried 190 captive Africans to be sold as slaves in Jamaica. The exhibition presents the history of the Henrietta Marie and examines the early years of the transatlantic slave trade... la suite sur http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=19413