‘THERE IS
SOMETHING ABOUT
THESE SHIPS,
HOW THEY
MOVED
TRADITIONS,
HOW THEY
MOVED
CULTURE.’
AYANA FLEWELLENArchaeologists
Justin Dunnavant
(at left), a National
Geographic Explorer,
and Ayana Flewellen
are co-founders of
the Society of Black
Archaeologists and
instructors with DWP.Photographed while
on a mission to eval-
uate an 18th-century
wrecked merchant ship
in St. John, they also
run the excavations
at a former Danish
sugar plantation on
nearby St. Croix.