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CNN Presents Amistad Tour on Inside Africa Weekly Special E-mail
Written by Wojtek (Voytec) Wacowski   
Wednesday, 19 March 2008

This weekend CNN Inside Africa's host, Isha Sesay, presents Amistad's Atlantic Freedom Tour mission of teaching the values of freedom and justice aboard Amistad to the millions of viewers around the world.

 

Inside Africa is CNN's half-hour weekly current affairs program that provides global viewers with an inside look at political, economic, social, and cultural affairs and trends in Africa. It is aired as a weekend CNN special in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and Asia. While in Africa, the AMISTAD America team members witnessed first-hand the great popularity of the program.  Unfortunately, this interesting resource is not shown on United States TV.

Watch the video online:
CNN Inside Africa : Amistad Tour
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The original Freedom Schooner Amistad footage from Freetown, Sierra Leone is presented  together with interviews with AMISTAD America's own Captain Bill Pinkney and Donald George and a brief historical information about the
Amistad Incident of 1839.

 

CNN Inside Africa : Amistad Tour  VIDEO - 4:19  

 

 

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written by Joe James, March 20, 2008
We are helping a group of Liberian women, make beautiful hand-made quilts. See www.prosperityforall.org. In the 1890's, one such woman made a quilt for Queen Victoria, in thanks for the British ships which were patrolling Monrovia's harbor, to prevent more Africans from being taken into slavery. Our women are making a replica of that quilt, to give to Queen Elizabeth, as part of the commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the ending of the transatlantic slave trade.

JJJ

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