print email comment close The Last Slave Ships: Key West African Cemetery URL: http://www.melfisher.org/exhibitions/lastslaveships/cemetery.htm Description: This report details the evidence of an African cemetery at Higgs Beach in Key West, Florida, and describes how it was located. Includes facsimiles of historical records, maps, graphs, tables, and photos. In 1860, the U.S. Navy intercepted three American-owned slave ships taking Africans to Cuba. Now refugees, the Africans were taken to Key West before being sent to Liberia. Many died and were buried at Higgs Beach. From the Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society. Author: Fisher, Mel Publisher: Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society Extra Keywords slavery Library of Congress Subject Headings: Archaeology Black History Month Cemeteries -- Florida -- Key West Remote sensing Slave trade LII Database Information: Record 5030 created by Nora Harris on 02/19/2004 Last modification on 07/27/2007 Published: 02/19/2004   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/5030