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| - Captain John Black (31 October 1778 – c. May 1802), was an English-born ship's officer who had many adventures in his short career. His best remembered adventure concerned the mutiny on Lady Shore in August 1797, a ship that had been sailing with a cargo of soldiers and female convicts to Sydney, Australia. In 1798 his father, the Reverend John Black (1753–1813), a prolific writer of prose and poetry, published his son's letters which gave an account of the mutiny on board the ship, when his son had been put into a small boat and left to find his way to safety with several other members of the crew. The book was dedicated as a "small testimony of gratitude to the Portuguese nation" for the "unequalled hospitality" extended to his son and his fellows in the Portuguese colonies that are now (en)
- John Black (Great Yarmouth, 31 de outubro de 1778 - local desconhecido no Oceano Índico, maio de 1802) foi um corsário inglês. Era marinheiro no Lady Shore'em 1797, com destino à Austrália, com vários deportados, quando a tripulação se amotinou na costa brasileira, matando o capitão e tomando posse do navio, prendendo o resto. Duas semanas depois, em 15 de agosto de 1797 os amotinados, colocaram John Black e 28 outros passageiros (oficiais, esposas, crianças e 4 condenados - 3 mulheres e um homem, o major James George Semple Lisle) em um bote e os deixaram a deriva no oceano Atlântico. Depois de dois dias foram resgatados por outro barco e levados a Rio Grande, 300 milhas de distância de onde foram encontrados. Permaneceu no Rio Grande do Sul por alguns meses até conseguir viajar para o Ri (pt)
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