The Black Joke: The True Story of One British Ship's Battle Against the Slave Trade

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See more videos about Dark Humour Jokes, Most Hilarious Jokes, Dark Humour Try Not to Laugh, Funny Dark Jokes, Funniest Jokes Ever, Funny Jokes. In September, in company with Fair Rosamond, Black Joke chased two Spanish slavers into the Bonny River.

There are entries regarding the famous action between BLACK JOKE and the Spanish slave ship EL ALMIRANTE, wherein the latter vessel was captured. At one point, 15-year-old Midshipman Hinde had to bring Black Joke back alongside Marinerito to rescue the boarding party, including Ramsey, which had become stranded on the Spanish slaver's deck. Adds global and historical context to the travesties and tragedies that took place along the coast of West Africa in the 1800s .It would also have been really nice to include a map of the patrol area showing the major settlements/bases/harbors mentioned in the book along with the sites where the slave ships were captured.

The Navy renamed her Black Joke, after an English song of the same name, and assigned her to the West Africa Squadron (or Preventive Squadron). Fair Rosamond captured two Spanish vessels, Regulo and Rapido, on 10 September and took them to Sierra Leone, where the Admiralty Court condemned them. From slave ship to a hunter of slave ships, from the dangers of the sea to the convoluted molasses of politics, A. The bawdy song was popular, however, and when the Brazilian slaving ship, Henriquetta was captured in 1827, it was renamed HMS Black Joke and spent the next five years chasing and capturing many other slave ships and freeing slaves.

As Britain slowly attempted to snuff out the transatlantic slave trade by way of treaty and negotiation, enforcing these policies fell to the Black Joke and those that sailed with it as they battled slavers, weather disasters, and interpersonal drama among captains and crew that reverberated across oceans. The story of the Black Joke touches on all of the factors that made its mission more difficult, from the factors above to international treaties and the ease with which captured ships could end up in slavers’ hands again, and everything in between.

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