Culture History

I later did some archaeology at the Captain Brewster Hawkins House in East Setauket out on Long Island for Dr. John Lee a psychopharmacologist psychiatrist back in 1980 or so that I used for a paper for a grad class in "Culture History" for Peruvianist archaeologist Edward Lanning. The shipyard there built the "Wanderer" a slaver which put into Jekyll Island, Georgia in 1858, (Wikipedia) even after being boarded by a British slave-trade blockader, which thought that this large luxury yacht couldn't be used for slaving. It was fitted with water tanks in Port Jefferson, NY after being sold to a Louisiana cotton merchant's broker, I think 400 of the 600 Africans survived the crossing fed from a big iron cauldron that's a marker today. It was used and captured as a chess piece it's said during the Civil War and might have just help start it, slave trade illegal.