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Shackles, iron bars used as ballast and a wooden pulley block from a grounded slave ship will be shown for the first time at Cape Town's Iziko Slave Lodge Museum. It's thought 400 enslaved people drowned when the Portuguese ship the Sao Jose-Paquete de Africa went down in rough conditions off the coast of Cape Town in December 1794. Since the wreck was discovered by divers in 1980 its location has been kept secret in order to protect the site. Divers from Mozambique, South Africa and the United States will be going to the wreck to leave earth from Mozambique Island, where the ship departed with its human cargo, among them Jaco Boshoff who is a maritime archaeologist with the Iziko Museum.

(Photo credit: Iziko Museum)