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Welcome to More Than a Merchant Mariner's Wife: Empowering merchant mariner partners to reconnect with themselves and unite with each other. This is a place where people whose partners are at sea can find support, connection, and empowerment. I help partners of merchant mariners navigate their unique lifestyle so they can feel supported and understood while thriving. After living this crazy life as a daughter or wife of Merchant Mariners my whole life, I have some stories! I'm also a mom of 3 so if you’re looking for someone who understands the ins and outs of this lifestyle and the ...

A total of 305,000 enslaved Africans arrived in the New World aboard American vessels over a span of two hundred years as American merchants and mariners sailed to Africa and to the Caribbean to acquire and sell captives. Using exhaustive archival research, including many collections that have never been used before, historian Sean M. Kelley argues that slave trading needs to be seen as integral to the larger story of American slavery.