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Captain James
Captain James Brown sailed the Mary which was one of the first slaves ships that moved from Rhode Island. -
The Wheel of Fortune
The Brown's next involvement was in 1759 when Nicholas and John joined their uncle Obadiah and several of Providenses merchants in outfitting another ship. The Wheel of fortune was captured by a FRench privateer and also taking most of the family's investments with it. -
The Sally
Nicholas Brown and Company sent three ships to meet in the caribean, two of which were to contained horses and other goods to sell. The third ship was to asil to West Africa first to get get a load of slaves for sale in the Brittish colonies for the Caribean on the ship. This ship was named the Sally. On September 10 the Sally finally left Newport for Africa. -
Getting Slaves, The Sally
Today Captain Hopkins had arrived on The Sally, in West Africa on the coast of what is noe called Guiena. Hopkins went to many African leaders making relationships so that he could get slaves much easier. For nine months he had been sailing across the West African coastline doing the same thing then he came across the end of a war between France and Great Brittain. This caused many ships to come and try to aquire more and more slaves at one point Hopkins had counted about fourteen ships. -
Losing the Slaves
Captain Hopkins had brought his last slave but in total he had bought 196 slaves. Nine of them had sold to other traders and then 201 of them had died. Thoose numbers grew even more after they had left the coast, on the eigth day out the slaves had rebelled and the crew took action, By that they had killed eight and wounded seven. -
Rebelling
Hopkin's crew had been downsized because of sicknesses so then he had taken a few slaves onto the deck to help out the crew. That didn't help them that much becausse they keep freeing the slaves from where they were kept underneath the boat. This had caussed all of the slaves to try to take over the boat but were happily stopped from doing so from the captain and the rest of his crew. Which had killed, wounded, and force many of the slaves saw which made them do so, so they would not be hurt. -
Losing 88
The crew fires on enslaved Africans with 88 of them dieing, some drowned, some starved and then some others sickened and died. Hopkins said the ones who survived were very disspirited. The rest had sold on the Carribeam but e,aciated and sickly, they sold for very low prices.
