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Othello had a crew of 36 when she started out on the voyage and she lost 21 crew members during the voyage. [5] In 1790 Othello underwent lengthening and repairs. [8] Her burthen increased from 122 to 208 tons. Captain John Powell sailed Othello on 16 March 1790 for the Bight of Biafra and Gulf of Guinea islands. He gathered his slaves at ...
Indeed, racist parodies were common in the aftermath of the abolition of the slave trade in the UK and, later, in the US: for example Maurice Dowling's 1834 Othello Travestie, George W H Griffin's 1870 Othello (Ethiopian Burlesque), the anonymous Desdemonum An Ethiopian Burlesque of 1874 and the anonymous Dar's de Money (Othello Burlesque) of 1880.
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The following is a list of notable people who owned other people as slaves, where there is a consensus of historical evidence of slave ownership, in alphabetical order by last name. Part of a series on Forced labour and slavery Contemporary ...
Several vessels have born the name Othello for the character Othello. Two of these ships, in the late 18th Century, were slave ships: Othello (1781 ship) (or Ortello), was launched at Liverpool in 1769, possibly under the name Preston. She made two voyages in the African slave trade in 1781 and 1782.
Othello was armed, and Johnson had received a letter of marque. He sailed from Liverpool on 1 July 1781, bound for Sierra Leone. [2] On the way Othello captured St Anne, of 300 tons (bm), which was sailing from Buenos Aires to Cádiz. St Anne was carrying 8,500 dry hides, 180 boxes of Peruvian bark , and four sacks of "fine Spanish wool". [6]
William Vernon (January 17, 1719 – December 22, 1806), of Newport, Rhode Island, was a merchant in the Atlantic slave trade who played a leading role in the Continental Congress' maritime activities during the American Revolution.
Thus an astute slave could save and might grow quite rich, buying one or more slaves of his own. His slaves might to do the same: thus there could be slaves of slaves. The head slave, unless liberated, remained a slave in every respect: his owner could examine him under torture for suspected embezzlement.
Women slave owners (2 C, 146 P) Pages in category "Slave owners" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent ...