Erik Calonius research materials on the Wanderer (Schooner), 1830s-2008.

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Erik Calonius research materials on the Wanderer (Schooner), 1830s-2008.

1830s-2008

http://ghs.galileo.usg.edu/ghs/view?docId=ead/MS%202434-ead.xml;query=;brand=default

This collection contains Erik Calonius' research materials on his 2006 book entitled, The Wanderer: The Last American Slave Ship and the Conspiracy That Set its Sails. Materials include photocopies of clippings, articles, photographs, correspondence and other sources used in writing the book. Also included are Calonius' notes and correspondence regarding the sources and seventeen books with his marginalia and notes. Majority of the materials are photocopies and computer printouts and were organized by book chapter by Calonius prior to donation. Collection materials date from the 1830s to 2008.

3 boxes (3 cubic feet)

eng, Latn

Georgia Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 8210395

Georgia Historical Society

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Calonius, Erik

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Erik Calonius, photojournalist and contributing photographer to the Environmental Protection Agency's Documerica project in the early 1970s. Erik Calonius earned a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. He was a reporter, editor, and London-based correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and served as an editor and writer for Fortune magazine where he was nominated for the National Magazine Award. He is also the former Miami Bureau Chief for Newsweek. He is the aut...

Wanderer (Schooner)

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Wanderer was the next to last documented ship to bring an illegal cargo of people from Africa to the United States, landing at Jekyll Island, Georgia on November 28, 1858. It was the last to carry a large cargo, arriving with some 400 people. Clotilda, which transported 110 people from Dahomey in 1860, is the last known ship to bring enslaved people from Africa to the United States. Originally built in New York as a pleasure schooner, The Wanderer was purchased by Southern businessman Charles...