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- Title
Recovering a Black African's Voice in an English Lawsuit: Jacques Francis and the Salvage Operations of the Mary Rose and the Sancta Maria and Sanctus Edwardus, 1545-ca 1550.
- Authors
Ungerer, Gustav
- Abstract
The article focuses on Africans and the slave trade in England during the 1500s. The author analyzes the court records of the High Court of Admiralty in London, England. The article offers the story of Guinea diver Jacques Francis, who was the first black witness to give testimony in a major case in a European court. Francis was a slave who was involved in recovering goods from the sunken ships Sancta Maria and Sanctus Edwardus, and the Mary Rose.
- Subjects
LONDON (England); ENGLAND; UNITED Kingdom; FRANCIS, Jacques; AFRICANS; RACE relations &; politics; SHIPWRECK laws; MARITIME law -- Cases; WITNESSES; SLAVE trade; BOOTY (International law); REIGN of Henry VIII, England, 1509-1547
- Publication
Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England (Rosemont Publishing & Printing Corporation), 2005, Vol 17, p255
- ISSN
0731-3403
- Publication type
Article