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The Travels of Manuel Joseph
1media/IndianOcean1670.jpgmedia/[La_traite_des_noirs_drame_[...]Maleuvre_(Paris)_btv1b6400563w_2 copy.jpeg2021-08-03T13:05:58-04:00Matt Robertshawb17ae2d86131f0de10f5609f41b12fea9cbbd23210133timeline51372021-09-02T22:35:11-04:00Matt Robertshawb17ae2d86131f0de10f5609f41b12fea9cbbd232Manuel Joseph was a free Black born in Portugal between 1728 and 1730. A sailor by trade, his name appears on five rôles of the French East India Company. Like many crew members on French ships, Joseph was not French, and his travels were surely not limited to French ships. In fact, it is unclear how he travelled from his birthplace of Portugal to Brazil, where he enters the French record. But, apparently, for much of his twenties, he worked on French ships, even (if it is the same Manuel Joseph) volunteering on a French ship during the Seven Years' War, despite France being at war with Portugal. He travelled as far afield as Brazil, Bengal and Madagascar,and he ended up a prisoner of war in England.
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12021-08-04T13:04:15-04:00Matt Robertshawb17ae2d86131f0de10f5609f41b12fea9cbbd232Manuel Joseph is born in Portugal5c. 1728google_maps2021-09-03T10:52:21-04:0001/01/172841.1610, -8.6207Matt Robertshawb17ae2d86131f0de10f5609f41b12fea9cbbd232
12021-09-02T09:17:21-04:00Matt Robertshawb17ae2d86131f0de10f5609f41b12fea9cbbd232The Voyage of the Auguste (1751-1752)3Brazil - Lorientplain2021-09-03T10:52:44-04:0009/20/1751 - 01/25/1752Matt Robertshawb17ae2d86131f0de10f5609f41b12fea9cbbd232
12021-09-02T15:03:50-04:00Matt Robertshawb17ae2d86131f0de10f5609f41b12fea9cbbd232The Voyage of the Mascarin (1752)3Lorient - Île de Franceplain2021-09-02T17:10:32-04:00Matt Robertshawb17ae2d86131f0de10f5609f41b12fea9cbbd232
12021-08-04T14:22:47-04:00Matt Robertshawb17ae2d86131f0de10f5609f41b12fea9cbbd232Manuel Joseph embarks on the Duc d’Aquitaine1Lisbon, Portugalgoogle_maps2021-08-04T14:22:47-04:0011/01/175638.6437, -9.142Matt Robertshawb17ae2d86131f0de10f5609f41b12fea9cbbd232
12021-08-04T14:25:47-04:00Matt Robertshawb17ae2d86131f0de10f5609f41b12fea9cbbd232Captured by the British!5Lisbon, Portugalgoogle_maps2021-08-05T15:54:39-04:0005/30/175738.6437, -9.142Matt Robertshawb17ae2d86131f0de10f5609f41b12fea9cbbd232
12021-08-04T14:33:49-04:00Matt Robertshawb17ae2d86131f0de10f5609f41b12fea9cbbd232Imprisoned in the Old Gaol at Plymouth4Plymouth, Great Britaingoogle_maps2021-08-04T14:38:00-04:0006/01/175750.371389, -4.142222Matt Robertshawb17ae2d86131f0de10f5609f41b12fea9cbbd232
12021-08-23T14:45:10-04:00Matt Robertshawb17ae2d86131f0de10f5609f41b12fea9cbbd232Manuel Joseph summary2plain2021-08-24T15:14:00-04:00Matt Robertshawb17ae2d86131f0de10f5609f41b12fea9cbbd232
