Have archaeologists been able to recover the bodies of slaves dumped into the Atlantic during the slave trade?

Answer 1

To my knowledge, not that I know of. I'm not entirely sure how realistic that would be to begin with. Bodies typically don't do so well in the ocean. Sea life picks the bones clean relatively quickly. If the water is deep enough, then calcium-starved organisms will absorb the bones rather rapidly as well. You can look at things like the "Titanic's Graveyard," where the only evidence that there were bodies are boots and other objects preserved in the oxygen-less environment for parallels. As nice as it would be to recover them, I think that by this point, unless a miracle happened, then they have probably been claimed by the sea.