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We promised to build the ship...

...we built the Schooner Amistad.

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...we just came back from Africa.



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After U.S. Breakthrough, Europe Looks in Mirror...
Wednesday, 12 November 2008  ::  Written by STEVEN ERLANGER - New York Times
PARIS — In the general European euphoria over the election of Barack Obama, there is the beginning of self-reflection about Europe’s own troubles with racial integration. Many are asking if there could be a French, British, German or Italian Obama, a...
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I Am an American......
Wednesday, 12 November 2008  ::  Written by Bill Pinkney - Master Emeritus of Schooner Amistad
  I've watched troop trains come home from WWII with Black soldiers in separate cars. I've seen a Black general conduct a major campaign of war.   I was chased out of Lincoln Park, in my hometown of Chicago, as a yout...
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Learning about the slavery & the slave trade in the Indian Ocean at Gilder Lehrman Center...
Monday, 10 November 2008  ::  Written by Wojtek (Voytec) Wacowski
I had a pleasure of representing Amistad America at the 10th Annual International Conference on Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean and Arab Worlds: Global Connections and Disconnections organized by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the St...
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World Famous Freedom Schooner Amistad Visits Kent County...
Friday, 31 October 2008  ::  Written by Media-Newswire.com
Chestertown, MD — Washington College is pleased to announce several special events in conjunction with Freedom Schooner Amistad's presence in the Chestertown harbor from Thursday, October 30 to Sunday, November 2. The college's C.V. Starr Center for ...
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A Real Adrenaline Rush...
Thursday, 23 October 2008  ::  Written by Jason Sawdye
Hello, all! It has been a while since my last blog so here goes!   We have completed what could be described as the highlight of the trip, that being the schooner race. The start was a real adrenalin rush with all those sail boats, big and...
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After U.S. Breakthrough, Europe Looks in Mirror...
Wednesday, 12 November 2008  ::  Written by STEVEN ERLANGER - New York Times
PARIS — In the general European euphoria over the election of Barack Obama, there is the beginning of self-reflection about Europe’s own troubles with racial integration. Many are asking if there could be a French, British, German or Italian Obama, a...
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Preparation for UN Anti-racism Review Conference Underway...
Friday, 17 October 2008  ::  Written by Wojtek (Voytec) Wacowski
The Preparatory Committee for the 2009 Anti-Racism Review Conference is holding its second substantive session from 6 to 17 October, in Geneva to prepare for a draft outcome document for the 2009 Review Conference.   In her statement to the s...
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Art event in Providence to recognize Rhode Island's heavy role in trans-Atlantic slave trade...
Monday, 29 September 2008  ::  Written by ERIC TUCKER | Associated Press Writer
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) _ One of Rhode Island's most celebratory occasions next weekend will also have reminders of one of the ugliest chapters in its history. WaterFire — a nighttime public arts display that draws tens of thousands of people to d...
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Elm City honors Sierra Leone...
Wednesday, 24 September 2008  ::  Written by Kristopher Driggers - Yale Daily News
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is not the only foreign diplomat in town this week. Alhaji Alpha Kanu, the minister of presidential affairs for Sierra Leone, and more than 20 other members of the presidential entourage made a public appe...
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Explaining White Privilege (Or, Your Defense Mechanism is Showing)...
Monday, 22 September 2008  ::  Written by Wojtek (Voytec) Wacowski
Webmaster's comment: Very interesting article and readers' comments... especially in the context of the present presidential election debates.   ...despite the notion that somehow we have attained an equal opportunity, or color-blind society, ...
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Sierra Leonean Historian explains Legacy of Amistad Revolt E-mail
Written by Wojtek (Voytec) Wacowski   
Friday, 18 January 2008

 

"The Amistad Rebellion, which began with the determination of Sengbe Pieh and fifty-two other Sierra Leoneans not to accept enforced slavery, has had far reaching consequences on two continents. Although the origins are mostly forgotten today, the processes set in motion by this revolt will continue to influence the course of historical development in both the United States and Sierra Leone -- thanks, in large measure, to the courage of Sengbe Pieh."  concludes Dr. Arthur Abraham, one of Sierra Leone's foremost historians in a publication of  the U.S. State Department "AMISTAD REVOLT" published in full in our History section pages and available also as download of ready to print Adobe Acrobat (PDF) files in three languages : English , French and Spanish.

 

Great reading and educational resource that AMISTAD America recommends to teachers and students.  

 

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