Book Event - Ocean of Bones: The Hunt for the Pirate Slave Ship Guerrero
Sat, Nov 21
|Sankofa Video Books & Café
Join us at Sankofa as we dive deep into Ocean of Bones with author, David Kushner, and diver and Vietnam War veteran, Ken Stewart, to find the remains of the slave ship Guerrero.
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Nov 21, 2026, 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Sankofa Video Books & Café, 2714 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
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Ocean of Bones: The Hunt for the Pirate Slave Ship Guerrero
In the tradition of Shadow Divers and The Wager, the incredible story of the Guerrero, a pirate ship in the transatlantic slave trade that was shipwrecked in the Florida Keys, and the scuba divers who tracked it down nearly two hundred years later.
In 1827, the brig Guerrero was racing across the Florida Straits with 561 kidnapped Africans in its hold. Though Britain and the United States had banned the Atlantic slave trade, outlaw captains like José Gomez attempted to get around their Navy patrols and make for Cuba, where markets remained open. Gomez was particularly ruthless, not only a trader but also a pirate who stole captives from other vessels.
When a Black diver and Vietnam veteran named Ken Stewart learned in 2004 that the Guerrero might still be in American waters, he marshalled a group he called…
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