Absalom Boston was a United States mariner. He was the first African-American captain to sail a whaleship, with an all-black crew in 1822. He also led the Nantucket abolitionist movement and was a founding trustee of the Nantucket's African Baptist Society and the African Meeting House in Nantucket. Boston was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, to […]
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