Absalom Boston was a United States mariner who was the first African-American captain to sail a whaleship, with an all-black crew, in 1822.
Absalom Boston was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, to Seneca Boston, an African-American ex-slave father, and Thankful Micah, a Wampanoag Indian mother. His grandfather or possibly uncle, a slave named Prince Boston,
was part of the crew of a 1770 whaling voyage, but refused to turn over
his earnings to his white master. Instead, he went to court and won
both his earnings and freedom, making him the first Black slave to win
his freedom in a U.S. jury trial.
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