“There are no artifacts to prove that slave ships existed.”
Social media posts
in tweets. Claim dated 9 Jul 2022.
PolitiFact rated thisPants on Fire
What PolitiFact found
There is extensive archaeological evidence that slave ships and the transatlantic slave trade existed.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 9 July 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 22 July 2022, 13 days later. Its rating was “Pants on Fire”.
Where the claim appeared
- Saved copy of the posthttps://archive.ph/IBLr8#selection-649.41-649.109
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