John Black
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English sailor and privateer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Captain John Black , was an English seafarer, who had a short but eventful career that included privateering and exploration. He was best known, during his own lifetime, for a mutiny on in August 1797, as it sailed south in the Atlantic Ocean, bound for Sydney, New South Wales, carrying female convicts. As a result of the mutiny, Black and several other members of the crew were put into a small boat and left to find their way to the nearest land, being Brazil.
