After rowing more than 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean from the Canary Islands to Antigua, four Antiguan women became the first all-black team to row across an ocean and the first all-women team to represent the Caribbean in a transoceanic row.
Read more about the Team Antigua Island Girls in my article for espnW: “Antigua’s ‘Island Girls’ on becoming the world’s first all-black team to voluntarily row across the Atlantic Ocean”
The path they rowed was a slave-trading route, and as descendants of slaves, the rowers kept that historical fact in the forefront of their minds. “We didn’t go a day without thinking and talking about it–that we were able to cross a slave route voluntarily,” team member Kevinia Francis said.