page_title: São José Paquete Africa
hierarchical_section_title: São José Paquete Africa
caption_attribution_description: A view of the Cape of Good Hope, taken on the Spot, from on board the Resolution, Capt. Cook, Oil on canvas
context_page_description: The São José Paquete Africa was a slave ship from the Kingdom of Portugal that sank in 1794 off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa. Close to shore, but in deep water, 212 of the 400 to 500 African slaves who were aboard died when the ship sank. In 2015, the Smithsonian's African American History Museum, South Africa's Iziko Museums, the Slave Wrecks Project, and other partners, confirmed discovery of the wreck near where it sank. The ship and its slaves were headed from Portuguese Mozambique to Colonial Brazil, during the height of the international African slave trade. Few other former slave ships have been found, but the São José is the first and only shipwreck discovered, as of June 3, 2015, of a working slave ship, which sank in transit with its human cargo aboard.
context_section_description: The São José Paquete Africa (also, São José-Paquete de Africa) was a slave ship from the Kingdom of Portugal that sank in 1794 off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa.  Close to shore, but in deep water, 212 of the 400 to 500 African slaves who were aboard died when the ship sank.   In 2015, the Smithsonian's  African American History Museum, South Africa's Iziko Museums, the Slave Wrecks Project, and other partners, confirmed discovery of the wreck near where it sank.  The ship and its slaves were headed from Portuguese Mozambique to Colonial Brazil, during the height of the international African slave trade.  Few other former slave ships have been found, but the São José is the first and only shipwreck discovered, as of June 3, 2015, of a working slave ship, which sank in transit with its human cargo aboard.
caption: Hodges painting of the Cape (1772).  Near here, in 1794, the slaver São José Paquete Africa sank with her human cargo.
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