The Black Joke was arguably the best at capturing the "prize" of the British squadron that patrolled the African coast. It was purchased and became a part of the fleet of British ships that patrolled the African coast to stop the transatlantic slave trade.

The name sounds terribly racist, but it has nothing to do with that; the ship was named after an incredibly bawdy and raunchy pub song which I will not make reference to here! The crew of Presidenté underwent an examination before being committed for trial on charges of piracy. But this did show how some countries were trying ti stop it, and others in this time frame, we’re not. On the other hand, I also found some elements to be digressions and often found the author’s voice intrusive.Simon Weaver, “ Jokes, Rhetoric and Embodied Racism: A Rhetorical Discourse Analysis of the Logics of Racist Jokes on the Internet,” Ethnicities 11, no. This historical investigation of one ship against a world of opposition is an adventurous investigation that relates the historical fact with extraordinary feeling, transmitting all the tension imaginable as ships chased and dodged one another on eerie fog-heavy, shark-infested seas, during a time when domineering nations drew invisible lines in the earth and filled stolen lands with stolen lives. It becomes evident rather quickly that the story of the Black Joke is not nearly substantive enough to fill the pages of an entire book, and so much of the story revolves instead around the work of abolitionists and the minutiae of the West Africa Squadron’s operations.

So many things about this book have stuck with me: how the "freed" enslaved on the ships were not really freed at all, how ineffective (and rare) anti-slavery legislation was, how unmitigatingly terrible the conditions for the enslaved were on these ships, how sailors could not swim (this was stunning), and so much more- you have to read the book to really understand everything. Ramsey received promotion to the rank of commander for the capture of Marinerito and handed over command to Lieutenant H V Huntley. His detailing of the inclusion and exclusion imperatives of the jokes can be especially helpful to scholars doing rhetorical analysis of media texts—even outside of humor. If anyone has suggestions as this is my first TRUE scratch-build I am open for pointers and pitfalls. This is a fine book that not only details the story of The Black Ship’s contribution to stamping it out but also shows how the attitude of countries through the world hindered its final abolition.I also started beveling the frames and began the first layer planking near the keel to stiffen the frames prior to further shaping and sanding. On 11 October, he captured the Christina (or Cristina), a Spanish schooner of three guns and 24 crew members.