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1793

1793: A mulatto sailor aboard a schooner bound for Curaçao committed a spectacular act of maritime rebellion by murdering his captain at sea.

HT-TCWI-2018-000141

1793: A mulatto sailor aboard a schooner bound for Curaçao committed a spectacular act of maritime rebellion by murdering his captain at sea. After seizing command of the vessel, he successfully navigated the ship into the revolutionary territory of French Saint-Domingue. This event served as a powerful example of the radical agency exercised by black mariners who utilized their nautical skills to escape the British service. Such actions struck terror into the hearts of the white planter class, who realized their economic reliance on nonwhite sailors made them vulnerable to internal subversion. The seizure of the vessel symbolized the rising power of a mobile black resistance that could transform the tools of commerce into instruments of liberation.

Source  ·  HT-TCWI-2018-000141  ·  p. 141 Scott, The Common Wind, 141 / Bates: HT-TCWI-2018-000141