Professor Gilson Rambelli, faculty member of the Department of Archaeology at UFS and scientific coordinator of the AfrOrigens Institute, will give a lecture at the Higher School of the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office in Brasília, on August 28, 2024.
Using the case of the brig Camargo, a research project of the AfrOrigens Institute, Gilson explains in great detail the past, present, and future of archaeological and historical studies of slave ships as a tool to change the current reality of racism.
On August 6, 2023, at 2:00 p.m., in Room 5 of the Hangar Convention & Fair Center of the Amazon, AfrOrigens Institute board members Vera and Yuri Sanada gave a lecture as an official part of the Amazônia Dialogues event, which preceded the Amazon Summit.
Pará is the state with the largest number of officially demarcated quilombola territories. Data from the 2022 Census of the IBGE show that Pará has the fourth largest quilombola population in the country, with 135,033 people. This highlights the strength of the Quilombola Amazon.
Pará is the state with the largest number of officially demarcated quilombola territories. Data from the 2022 Census of the IBGE show that Pará has the fourth largest quilombola population in the country, with 135,033 people. This demonstrates the strength of the Quilombola Amazon.
They took the opportunity to engage with several other participants of the event, such as at the National Meeting of Quilombola Students, which took place at the Federal University of Pará.
Assista aqui ao Seminário completo.
On July 7, starting at 9:00 a.m., at the headquarters of the National Archives in Rio de Janeiro, the seminar “The Case of the Slave Ship Camargo – Recovering the Materiality of a Brazilian and International History of a Crime Against Humanity” will take place. The event will present the research project on the case, which represents the first initiative to study the remains of a slave ship that sank off the Brazilian coast, the brig Camargo, and brings together evidence of the illegal transatlantic trafficking of Africans to Brazil.
The brig Camargo was stolen in California (USA) in 1851 by its captain Nathaniel Gordon, who sailed to Mozambique, from where he brought about 500 enslaved Africans to the clandestine port of Bracuí in Angra dos Reis in December 1852, when the ship was intentionally sunk. Systematic archaeological research to locate the remains of the ship on the seabed of Ilha Grande Bay began in 2022 and symbolizes the opening of a new global investigative line in Brazilian waters.
The event will feature the participation of Brazilian and American researchers and authorities, as well as members of the Quilombo Santa Rita do Bracuí community of Angra dos Reis. During the week preceding the event, geophysical activities will be carried out along the coast of Angra dos Reis, using three seabed scanning technologies, along with dives by the underwater archaeology team. A meeting will also be held at the quilombo with Brazilian and American institutions.
The seminar is a joint initiative of the AfrOrigens Institute, the Passados Presentes Project, the Quilombo Santa Rita do Bracuí, and the National Archives, in partnership with the Slave Wrecks Project, an international network coordinated by the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture and George Washington University, which studies slave shipwrecks around the world.
Vídeo convite para o seminário.
Agenda
Date: July 7 (Friday)
Venue: National Archives – Praça da República, 173, Downtown, Rio de Janeiro
Program:
9:00 a.m. – Welcome Coffee
9:30 a.m. – Opening Session
10:00 a.m. – Research Presentation
Participants:
Ana Flávia Magalhães Pinto – Director-General of the National Archives
Paul Gardullo – Supervising Curator and Director of the Center for Global Slavery Studies at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture
Stephen Lubekmann – Professor at George Washington University and International Coordinator of the Slave Wrecks Project
Luis Felipe Freire Dantas Santos – President of the AfrOrigens Institute, PhD in Archaeology
Marilda de Souza Francisco – Leader of the Quilombo Santa Rita do Bracuí
Martha Abreu – Historian and researcher at the Passados Presentes Project, Professor at PPGH/UFF and researcher at PPGHS/FFP/UERJ
Julio Cesar da Silva Marins – Vice President of the AfrOrigens Institute, Master’s student in Archaeology
Information: aventura@aventura.com.br
On August 26, 2023, at the invitation of NAUI South America, the National Association of Underwater Instructors, the oldest diving certification agency in the world, the AfrOrigens Institute presented details of the search for the slave ship Camargo in Angra dos Reis.
This project, which is in essence a scientific diving project, aroused great interest and emotion among the participants, who are recreational diving professionals from all regions of Brazil.
The AfrOrigens Institute has on its board of directors two NAUI diving instructors, underwater archaeologist Gilson Rambelli and filmmaker Yuri Sanada, as well as divemaster Vera Sanada.
The lecture was presented by Vera and Yuri Sanada, since the event is reserved for NAUI members.
