þÿ<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html" /> <title>The Museum Online</title> <style type="text/css"> body { margin: 5% 15%; background-color: #66CCFF; color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica, Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; line-height: 110%; text-align:justify; } h1 { margin: 0; background-color: #66CCFF; color: #FFFFFF; font-family: Helvetica, Georgia, serif; font-size: 160%; line-height: 140%; } h2 { margin: 0; position:absolute; top:30px; right:5px; background-color: #66CCFF; color: #FFFFFF; font-family: Helvetica, Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; } h3 { margin: 0; background-color: #66CCFF; color: #FFFFFF; font-family: Helvetica, Georgia, serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 140%; } h4 { background-color: #66CCFF; color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 120%; text-align:justify; } a { color: #00000F; } a:hover { color: #B3442E; } </style> </head> <body> <p> <h1>A Thousand Ships - The Book</h1> </p> <a href="http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2887034" target="_blank"><strong>Buy the book here</strong></a><br/><br/> On October 4, 2008, tens of thousands of people in Providence, Rhode Island, participated in a unique memorial to the victims of slavery. <br/><br/> Co-created by The Museum On Site and Barnaby Evans, <a href="http://themuseumonline.com/ThousandShips.php" target="_blank">"A Thousand Ships: A Ritual of Remembrance Marking the Bicentennial of the Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade"</a> took place at <a href="http://www.waterfire.org" target="_blank">WaterFire</a>, an art installation that lights bonfires on the rivers in downtown Providence  the same rivers on which ships engaged in the slave trade, more than two centuries earlier. <br/><br/> Click below to see inside the book.<br/> <div style="text-align:left; width:750px"><object id="myWidget" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.blurb.com/assets/embed.swf?book_id=2887034&locale=en_US" width="750" height="500"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><param name="movie" value="http://www.blurb.com/assets/embed.swf?book_id=2887034&locale=en_US"></param><a target="_new" href="http://www.blurb.com/books/preview/2887034?ce=blurb_ew&utm_source=widget"><img src="http://bookshow.blurb.com/bookshow/cache/P4099135/md/wcover_2.png"></img></a></object><div style="display:block;"><a href="http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2887034?ce=blurb_ew&utm_source=widget" target="_blank" style="margin:12px 3px;">A Thousand Ships by Andrew Losowsky and Lyra Monteiro</a></a></div></div><br/><br/> This book presents images and documentation from A Thousand Ships, as well as reflections from participants and spectators. Any proceeds from the sale of this book will be used to fund free public experiences created by The Museum On Site, which help people understand their worlds. <br/><br/>Foreword by James T. Campbell, Professor of United States History, Stanford University<br/> Epilogue by Barnaby Evans, Creator of WaterFire<br/> Methodology Essay by Lyra Monteiro, Co-Director of The Museum On Site<br/> Designed by <a href="http://llamaproduct.com/" target="_blank">Jason Tranchida</a> <br/><br/> ISBN: 978-0-615-57932-0<br/> 142 full-color pages<br/> $49.95 <br/> <p> <a href="http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2887034" target="_blank"><strong>Click here to buy the book</a></strong><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.themuseumonline.com/book/1000_SHIPS_low-res.pdf" target="_blank">Click here to download a free, low-resolution PDF</a> (6.4MB)<br/> The PDF is shared according to the conditions of a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-noncommercial-noDerivs 3.0 unported License</a>; no part of the document can be removed and distributed separate from the PDF without permission.<br/><br/><a href="mailto:&#108;&#121;&#114;&#097;&#064;&#116;&#104;&#101;&#109;&#117;&#115;&#101;&#117;&#109;&#111;&#110;&#108;&#105;&#110;&#101;&#046;&#099;&#111;&#109;">Email us for more information.</a> </p> </body> </html>