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NEW HAVEN HOMECOMING
June 21st

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"Dani has left the building..."...
Tuesday, 24 June 2008  ::  Written by Dani Settle - SV Amistad - Chef
This has all been like a dream to me, but I know it happened because I have pictures or someone did an amazing job of photo-shopping me into some incredible places…yesterday morning I cooked breakfast for the crew for what might be the last time…haul...
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Amistad Returns; Gods Thanked...
Monday, 23 June 2008  ::  Written by by Melinda Tuhus - New Haven Independent
Exactly one year after setting sail from New Haven on a trans-Atlantic journey, the Freedom Schooner Amistad returned to New Haven, amid pomp, celebration, and prayer. “We are here not just to celebrate,” Sierra Leonean Donald George (pictured) sai...
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Freedom Schooner Amistad At Home - At Long Wharf In New Haven...
Sunday, 22 June 2008  ::  Written by Wojtek (Voytec) Wacowski
  Stay tuned for more pictures and video from Amistad's Homecoming Celebrations  ...
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Amistad Returns to New Haven, CT - Channel 8 Video & Report...
Sunday, 22 June 2008  ::  Written by News Channel 8's Crystal Haynes
New Haven (WTNH) -- After one year and 14,000 miles, Amistad is back home in New Haven. The Freedom Schooner's return to New Haven harbor was marked by celebration today.  Watch VIDEO at Channel 8's - WTNH website Tonight there's a ...
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Watch Channel 8's VIDEO : Preparing for Amistad's return to New Haven...
Friday, 20 June 2008  ::  Written by News Channel 8's Keith Kountz
New Haven (WTNH) -- For more than a year, the Amistad has been on a North Atlantic Freedom tour.  A major celebration marking the Amistad's return to its home port of New Haven is set for tomorrow morning. Amistad and its story of human triu...
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Traces of the Trade & Inheriting the Trade...
Thursday, 08 May 2008  ::  Written by Webmaster
The Film: The Traces of the Trade In this feature documentary, filmmaker Katrina Browne discovers that her New England ancestors were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. She and nine cousins retrace the Triangle Trade and gain a powerf...
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Race - Power Of Illusion...
Monday, 14 April 2008  ::  Written by www.AllAboutRace.com
Webmaster's Comment:  Recently I have discovered on Web an amazing resource and platform for Conversations On Race - a blog All About Race - I want to encourage all Amistad visitors to meet Carmen D. - the person behind the Blog.  Amo...
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40 Years Ago... The Death of MLK Jr.: RFK Said It Best...
Friday, 04 April 2008  ::  Written by Mother Jones
(Webmaster's Comment: Six minutes of your time to listen,,, please add several more to think...)    It's been four decades since Martin Luther King, Jr., was shot and killed. On the occasion of this anniversary, there's much media coverag...
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A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face With Modern-Day Slavery...
Thursday, 03 April 2008  ::  Written by Webmaster
Benjamin Skinner is the author of the new book A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face With Modern-Day Slavery. He spent the past five years traveling between five continents to infiltrate slave trafficking networks—at times negotiating sales underc...
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Rice hits U.S. 'birth defect'...
Friday, 28 March 2008  ::  Written by Nicholas Kralev - The Washington Times
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in a wide-ranging interview with reporters and editors yesterday at The Washington Times, says boycotting the Summer Olympics in China would be ineffective.     Secretary of State Co...
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Amistad Returns; Gods Thanked
Written by by Melinda Tuhus - New Haven Independent   
Monday, 23 June 2008

Exactly one year after setting sail from New Haven on a trans-Atlantic journey, the Freedom Schooner Amistad returned to New Haven, amid pomp, celebration, and prayer.

“We are here not just to celebrate,” Sierra Leonean Donald George (pictured) said in a libation before a festive welcoming Long Wharf crowd Saturday, “but to remember how the 53 brave Sierra Leoneans fought with their own hands for their own freedom, but not forgetting the help of the people of Connecticut to gain their freedom.”

 

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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 24 June 2008 )
 
Freedom Schooner Amistad At Home - At Long Wharf In New Haven
Written by Wojtek (Voytec) Wacowski   
Sunday, 22 June 2008

 

Stay tuned for more pictures and video from Amistad's Homecoming Celebrations  

Last Updated ( Sunday, 22 June 2008 )
 
Amistad in New Haven - Homecoming Visit Schedule
Written by AAI   
Friday, 20 June 2008

Freedom Schooner Amistad's Homecoming visit at her homeport will be brief - check the calendar to plan your visit.  

 

  • Saturday, June 21st - All day program. Event at Long Wharf in New Haven starts at 9:30 and ends about noon. The ship is open for public till 4 p.m. Detailed Program HERE!

 

Please join the Amistad crew, staff and students

on June 21st at 9:30 am at Long Wharf Pier

for a public ceremony welcoming the Schooner home. 

 

Freedom Schooner Amistad leaving New Haven on June 21st, 2007

Amistad embarking on her Atlantic Freedom Tour a year ago - June 21, 2007

 

Check the detailed Homecoming Celebrations PROGRAM

 

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 24 June 2008 )
 
New Haven - HOMECOMING - June 21st, 2008
Written by AAI   
Monday, 16 June 2008

 

The Freedom Schooner Amistad sails the world as a symbol of freedom, justice and human cooperation among all races and religions.  The message is founded on the telling of the Amistad Story where kidnapped Africans were set free by a pro-slavery U.S. Supreme Court because black and white abolitionists work tirelessly to win their freedom.

On June 21, 2008  exactly one year  to the day - Freedom Schooner Amistad will return to its homeport of New Haven having completed a 14,000 miles long circumnavigation of the Atlantic Ocean as part of an international commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade in the former British Empire (1807) and the United States (1808).

Last Updated ( Monday, 16 June 2008 )
 
What went wrong? Jury of Connecticut's Students sents Amistad captives back to slavery in Cuba
Written by Gregory Belanger - President & CEO   
Thursday, 19 June 2008

(The article was published by New Haven Register - June 18th, 2007 )

 

Mock trial puts spotlight on Amistad’s role 

 

The importance of the history of the Amistad Incident was underscored lately as newspapers' headlines (Connecticut Post, Shelton Weekly) declared that Connecticut students “revised” the famous verdict in a mock trial exercise: the students voted to send the La Amistad captives back to Cuba and a life of slavery. This is not, as one headline suggested, a “revision” but a “reversal” of the actual decision reached by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1841.
Photo: Connecticut Post
It is ironic that such a “verdict” could be reached by young people in Connecticut, the home of the famous civil rights victory. But it was a freely debated exercise, which can occasionally produce an unexpected outcome. Nonetheless, the irony is particularly noteworthy when you consider that the mock trial was held just as the
State’s official flagship and tall ship ambassador – the Freedom Schooner Amistad – was sailing home to Connecticut after a year-long transatlantic voyage commemorating the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade.

Last Updated ( Friday, 20 June 2008 )
 

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