HMS Black Joke
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Black Joke
Hundreds of enslaved africans on board when they fell into the hands f the british. They would dispa a prize crew to pilot the vessel back to adjudication in freetown, where it would go before a court of mixed commission. Courts were established in order to specifically adjudicate cases like this. As they oud go back to harbour, the folks on board would be catalogued and they would be given one of three choices. The choices that they were propos sed were either work the land in the colony to make it more viuable as a colony and more productive. B, if they were men, they could be sent to a segregated unit of the royal marine station
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