One of the finest clippers to sail seas, the Henriqueta made impressive work of its terrible job.Fast and manoeuvrable, the slave ship, or slaver, transported thousands of men and women to and the Americas and a life of unimaginable misery.Yet when the Henriqueta was caught in 1827 by the Royal Navy – as Britain worked to abolish the wicked trade – a remarkable transformation took place. She was renamed the Black Joke and employed to hunt down slave vessels in the very same waters she once plied to deadly effect.
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