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Sailing the Atlantic slave trade route
CLAS students Erica Whyte and Logan Senack were among a group of ten college students who crossed the Atlantic this summer on the first leg of a voyage that is following the triangular route of the slave trade. Sailing on the Amistad, a reconstruction of the ship commandeered by African captives in 1839, they left New Haven on June 21 and arrived in Falmouth in the southwest of England on Aug. 8, after a stop in Nova Scotia and a brief stop in the Azores. The ship was then scheduled to sail to Liverpool, arriving on Aug. 19 for the opening of the International Slavery Museum It will then sail and moor in Bristol and London before resuming the slave trade route, stopping at Portugal, Senegal, Sierra Leone, the Caribbean, and arriving back in the U.S. next summer. The CLAS students were aboard as study abroad students for the first leg of the journey. Senack, an ecology and evolutionary biology major, and Whyte, a coastal studies major, posted regular entries on the ship’s log, describing everything from doing laundry at sea to climbing 120 feet aloft to unfurl the topsail. To read about their experiences, follow these links. Log entries posted by Logan: http://www.amistadamerica.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=9&id=88&Itemid=127 Log entries posted by Erica: http://www.amistadamerica.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=9&id=91&Itemid=131
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