The Story of Two Heroic Black Privateers-- Part 1

From the U.S. Merchant Marine site "American Merchant Marine and Privateers in War of 1812.  This is the same site I used for the last six entries.

In a January 1, 1813. letter from Nathaniel Shaler of the privateer schooner General Tompkins,  to his agent:

"Before I could get our light sails in, and almost before I could turn round, I was under guns , not of a transport, but of a frigate! and not more than a quarter of a mile from her.... Her first  broadside killed two men, and wounded six others...  My officers conducted themselves in a way that would have done honor to a more permanent service...."

--Brock-Perry