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  2. HMS Black Joke (1827) - Wikipedia

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    HM Brig, Black Joke engaging the Spanish slave brig Maranerito in the Bay of Biafra, 26 April 1831, by George Philip Reinagle. In a famous action on 25 or 26 April 1831, Black Joke was again under Ramsey's command when she captured the Marinerito. [18] Black Joke captured the much larger and more heavily armed Spanish slaver off the island of ...

  3. List of African-American historic places in South Carolina

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    James Simons Elementary School/Desegregation of Charleston Schools (HM) Slave Auctions (HM) U.S. Courthouse and Post Office/Briggs v. Elliott (HM) Weston-Grimké Homesite (HM) Jonathan Jasper Wright Law Office (HM) Edisto Island. Edisto Island Baptist Church (NR) Hutchinson House (NR) Point of Pines Plantation (NR) Seaside School (NR) Folly Beach

  4. Theophilus Freeman - Wikipedia

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    Theophilus Freeman (c. 1800 – May 18, 1860) was a 19th-century American slave trader of Virginia, Louisiana and Mississippi. He was known in his own time as wealthy and problematic. He was known in his own time as wealthy and problematic.

  5. Jim (Huckleberry Finn) - Wikipedia

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    Jim's is one of the several spoken dialects called deliberate in a prefatory note. Academic studies include Lisa Cohen Minnick's 2004 Dialect and Dichotomy: Literary Representations of African American Speech [7] and Raphaell Berthele's 2000 "Translating African-American Vernacular English into German: The problem of 'Jim' in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn".

  6. ‘Slave Play’ Black Out Performances Slammed by U.K ... - AOL

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    Two proposed “Black Out” London West End performances of Jeremy O. Harris‘ “Slave Play” have come under fire from U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s office. The controversial play about ...

  7. Black Cargoes: A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1518–1865

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    Another illustration in Black Cargoes (and reprinted in a New York Times review of the book) was taken from a Harper's Weekly magazine article, a wood engraving after a daguerreotype of slaves on the captured slave-ship, Wildfire, brought to Key West in 1860, well after the slave trade was prohibited in the United States in 1808. The legend in ...

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  9. Corps of Colonial Marines - Wikipedia

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    The Corps of Colonial Marines were two different Royal Marine units raised from former black slaves for service in the Americas at the behest of Alexander Cochrane. [1] The units were created at two separate periods: 1808-1810 during the Napoleonic Wars; and then again during the War of 1812; both units being disbanded once the military threat had passed.