Lord Ligonier
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The Lord Ligonier was a British slave ship .
history
The Lord Ligonier sailed on 5 July 1767 140 slaves as cargo on board the Gambia River in Juffure on the West African coast to Annapolis , Maryland . With 98 surviving slaves, the ship reached the American coast on September 29, 1767 under the command of Captain Davies .
Kunta Kinte
For his novel Roots , Alex Haley assumed that his ancestor Kunta Kinte was abducted on this ship. On this he built his semi-fictional family story. This was also filmed in 1977 as Roots . The two-masted brig unicorn was used for the shooting .
Web links
- Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Foundation Among other things, the newspaper advertisement of the arrival of the ship (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Famous St Lucia pirate ship sinks - Latest News. (No longer available online.) In: Jamaica Observer. May 25, 2014, archived from the original on June 18, 2015 ; Retrieved June 18, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
