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unusual facts about slave ship



Abraham Samuel

In 1698, early in the career of John Cruger (the elder), the Mayor of New York from 1739 till his death in 1744), while he was "a mere youth" he was appointed as Supercargo under Captain (see Captain (nautical)) Appel of the Prophet Daniel, to buy slaves for what was by then a regular "slaver" (slave ship) out of New York.


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1725 in poetry

July 24 – John Newton (died 1807), English, clergyman, former slave-ship captain and author of many hymns, including Amazing Grace

A Pox on Our House

In the 18th century, the Sotos Oosterzoon, a Dutch slave ship, travels to Bermuda.

Cline Town

The town was rebuilt in 1791 with the assistance of Alexander Falconbridge, a former surgeon on a slave ship.

Henrietta Marie

A 1995 documentary, Slave Ship: The Testimony of the Henrietta Marie, was narrated by Cornel West.

Quarry Bank Mill

Samuel Greg's brother-in-law, Thomas Hodgson, owned a slave ship, his father Thomas Greg and his brother John Greg part owned sugar plantations in the Caribbean on the island of Dominica.

Samuel Ajayi Crowther

However, before his slave-ship left port, it was boarded by a British Royal Navy ship under the command of Captain Henry Leeke, and Crowther was taken to Freetown, Sierra Leone, where he was released.

Thomas Cocklyn

On April 1, 1719, Cocklyn was a participant in the capture of the West African-bound English slave ship the Bird Galley at the mouth of the Sierra Leone River.