Sentences with phrase «spanish slave ship»

According to popular lore, Nigerian slaves ended up in St. Vincent after the wreck of a Spanish slave ship.

The Garinagu are descendants of Carib Indians (South American natives who settled on the Caribbean island of St Vincent) and West Africans who were said to have escaped from Spanish slave ships in 1635 and made the island their home.

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The story begins with Captain Sir John Lindsay (Matthew Goode), who fathered a daughter — Dido Elizabeth — with an African slave woman he rescued from a Spanish ship, taking that daughter from the slums where she's been living with her mother — now deceased — to the grand estate owned by his uncle, Lord Mansfield (Tom Wilkinson, excellent as always), who just happens to be the Lord Chief Justice of England.

Although the two countries are not at war, many British privateers (acting as lawless pirates who strip Spanish ships of their gold and slaves) known as «Sea Hawks» are unofficially doing Queen Elizabeth's bidding.

The plot gives ample opportunity for director Curtiz to stage grand action scenes, from Thorpe's storming of the Spanish ship in the beginning, to his men's battle in the tropics and finally, as slaves, violent mutiny aboard the ship.