Surprised that the voyage would take so long (long enough, in one case, for the slaves to mount a rebellion), I pulled out the Oxford Atlas and easily located Madagascar, and saw its geographic relation to South Africa.

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Later, I went on my laptop, logged on to Google Earth, found Madagascar, and was able to visually travel across the ocean from that island country to Cape Town by slowly spinning the globe with a click-and-drag.

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Their daughter, Willow, appeared in I Am Legend with her dad and did voice work with her mom on Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa.

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