There was no slave ship captain that signed the Declaration of Independence. The document had nothing to do with slavery and IF there had been a captain who ran a slave ship it wouldn’t have made any difference. Jefferson owned slaves and he wrote the Declaration.
Sir John Hawkins had the dubious honor of being the first British captain to dock a slave ship in the English colonies. The year was 1619 and the place was Jamestown, VA.
Sir John Hawkins had the dubious distinction of becoming the first slave-ship captain to bring Africans to the Americas. His ship was called "the good ship Jesus".
Captain Cawthorne is the cruel and corrupt captain of the ship that captures Jessie, the main character in "The Slave Dancer." He forces Jessie to play the fife to keep the enslaved Africans dancing during the Middle Passage.
Axle Rose
Axle Rose
Robert Smalls was a slave who commandeered a Confederate ship and made his way to freedom. He then went into service with the Union army.
Robert Smalls was a slave who commandeered a Confederate ship and made his way to freedom. He then went into service with the Union army.
it was a british slave ship famous for a massacre of lots of slaves The Zong is a slave ship thata was involved in the Slave Trade, the Zong was owned by a man called James Gregson. On one particular trip, the Zong was sailing from Africa to the West Indies, when its captain, Captain Collingwood was killed by disease.
William Williams
Yes, John Newton was a slave ship captain before he underwent a spiritual conversion and became an abolitionist. His transformation led him to renounce the slave trade and become an influential advocate for the abolition of slavery.
They were treated as the crew of any merchant ship of the time. It is likely, depending on the captain, that they were not treated well.