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| '''Cyprian Sterry''' ({{Circa|1753}}{{Spaced en dash}}September 1, 1825) was an 18th-century American ]. |
'''Cyprian Sterry''' ({{Circa|1753}}{{Spaced en dash}}September 1, 1825) was an 18th-century American ]. Based in Rhode Island, he has been described as an "affluent and highly successful merchant-shipowner."<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Coleman |first=Peter J. |date=1963 |title=The Entrepreneurial Spirit in Rhode Island History |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3112713 |journal=The Business History Review |volume=37 |issue=4 |pages=319–344 |doi=10.2307/3112713 |issn=0007-6805}}</ref> | ||
| == Career == | == Career == | ||
| In 1779, while living in London, Sterry swore an oath of allegiance to the United States and was issued a passport by ] so that he could ship Dutch cloth to America, a general business enterprise that was presented to Franklin as serving the patriotic purpose of being a source of blankets for the Continental Army.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Clark |first=William Bell |date=1953 |title=In Defense of Thomas Digges |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20088510 |journal=The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography |volume=77 |issue=4 |pages=381–438 |issn=0031-4587}}</ref>{{rp|402–403}} According to the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database, Cyprian Sterry was "the most active slave trader" based in ].<ref name="auto">{{cite web |title=Journal of the Slave Ship Mary |url=http://hdl.handle.net/10822/1055276 |access-date=January 17, 2025 |website=repository.library.georgetown.edu}}</ref> He financed at least 18 slave-trading trips and trafficked more than 1500 people from Africa to the United States before 1797.<ref name="auto"/> Georgetown University holds a logbook of a slave ship, the ''Mary'', funded by Sterry and captained by one Nathan Sterry, that visited "], ], and ]" and sold the approximately 100 slaves that survived the trip to the port of ] in 1796 to a "Mr. Robertson of Charleston and a Spanish merchant."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tritt |first=Samantha |date=September 14, 2020 |title=Slave ship logbook in library provides new insight into the slave trade in North America |url=https://georgetownvoice.com/2020/09/13/slave-ship-logbook-in-library-provides-new-insight-into-the-slave-trade-in-north-america/ |access-date=January 17, 2025 |website=The Georgetown Voice |language=en-US}}</ref> | Sterry was a native of ], a sea-faring colony, "more dependent upon maritime enterprise than any other."<ref name=":0" />{{Rp|page=322}} In 1779, while living in London, Sterry swore an oath of allegiance to the United States and was issued a passport by ] so that he could ship Dutch cloth to America, a general business enterprise that was presented to Franklin as serving the patriotic purpose of being a source of blankets for the Continental Army.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Clark |first=William Bell |date=1953 |title=In Defense of Thomas Digges |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20088510 |journal=The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography |volume=77 |issue=4 |pages=381–438 |issn=0031-4587}}</ref>{{rp|402–403}} he served in the ] as a quartermaster and ].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Founders Online: To George Washington from Brigadier General James Mitchell Var … |url=https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-09-02-0147 |access-date=January 17, 2025 |website=founders.archives.gov |language=en}}</ref> According to the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database, Cyprian Sterry was "the most active slave trader" based in ].<ref name="auto">{{cite web |title=Journal of the Slave Ship Mary |url=http://hdl.handle.net/10822/1055276 |access-date=January 17, 2025 |website=repository.library.georgetown.edu}}</ref> He financed at least 18 slave-trading trips and trafficked more than 1500 people from Africa to the United States before 1797.<ref name="auto"/> Georgetown University holds a logbook of a slave ship, the ''Mary'', funded by Sterry and captained by one Nathan Sterry, that visited "], ], and ]" and sold the approximately 100 slaves that survived the trip to the port of ] in 1796 to a "Mr. Robertson of Charleston and a Spanish merchant."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tritt |first=Samantha |date=September 14, 2020 |title=Slave ship logbook in library provides new insight into the slave trade in North America |url=https://georgetownvoice.com/2020/09/13/slave-ship-logbook-in-library-provides-new-insight-into-the-slave-trade-in-north-america/ |access-date=January 17, 2025 |website=The Georgetown Voice |language=en-US}}</ref> Rhode Island prohibited the African slave trade in 1797.<ref name="auto" /> Sterry declared bankruptcy in 1807.<ref name=":0" />{{Rp|page=326}} | ||
| His son Robert Sterry killed ] in a duel in New Orleans in 1805,<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Duelling in old New Orleans |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x001254464&seq=14&q1=Micajah |access-date=January 17, 2025 |website=HathiTrust |pages=9–12 |language=en}}</ref> and was the American consul at Rochelle, France prior to his death in a shipwreck off ], Long Island in 1820.<ref>{{Cite news |date=February 9, 1820 |title=Robert Sterry (1782–1820), Rhode Island |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-national-intelligencer-and-washing/163231630/ |access-date=January 17, 2025 |work=Daily National Intelligencer and Washington Express |pages=3}}</ref> | His son Robert Sterry killed ] in a duel in New Orleans in 1805,<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Duelling in old New Orleans |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x001254464&seq=14&q1=Micajah |access-date=January 17, 2025 |website=HathiTrust |pages=9–12 |language=en}}</ref> and was the American consul at Rochelle, France prior to his death in a shipwreck off ], Long Island in 1820.<ref>{{Cite news |date=February 9, 1820 |title=Robert Sterry (1782–1820), Rhode Island |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-national-intelligencer-and-washing/163231630/ |access-date=January 17, 2025 |work=Daily National Intelligencer and Washington Express |pages=3}}</ref> | ||
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American slave traderCyprian Sterry (c. 1753 – September 1, 1825) was an 18th-century American slave trader. Based in Rhode Island, he has been described as an "affluent and highly successful merchant-shipowner."
Career
Sterry was a native of Rhode Island, a sea-faring colony, "more dependent upon maritime enterprise than any other." In 1779, while living in London, Sterry swore an oath of allegiance to the United States and was issued a passport by Benjamin Franklin so that he could ship Dutch cloth to America, a general business enterprise that was presented to Franklin as serving the patriotic purpose of being a source of blankets for the Continental Army. he served in the American Revolutionary War as a quartermaster and brigade major. According to the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database, Cyprian Sterry was "the most active slave trader" based in Providence, Rhode Island. He financed at least 18 slave-trading trips and trafficked more than 1500 people from Africa to the United States before 1797. Georgetown University holds a logbook of a slave ship, the Mary, funded by Sterry and captained by one Nathan Sterry, that visited "Senegambia, Windward Coast, and Gold Coast" and sold the approximately 100 slaves that survived the trip to the port of Savannah in 1796 to a "Mr. Robertson of Charleston and a Spanish merchant." Rhode Island prohibited the African slave trade in 1797. Sterry declared bankruptcy in 1807.
His son Robert Sterry killed Micajah Green Lewis in a duel in New Orleans in 1805, and was the American consul at Rochelle, France prior to his death in a shipwreck off Southhampton, Long Island in 1820.
References
- ^ Coleman, Peter J. (1963). "The Entrepreneurial Spirit in Rhode Island History". The Business History Review. 37 (4): 319–344. doi:10.2307/3112713. ISSN 0007-6805.
- Clark, William Bell (1953). "In Defense of Thomas Digges". The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. 77 (4): 381–438. ISSN 0031-4587.
- "Founders Online: To George Washington from Brigadier General James Mitchell Var …". founders.archives.gov. Retrieved January 17, 2025.
- ^ "Journal of the Slave Ship Mary". repository.library.georgetown.edu. Retrieved January 17, 2025.
- Tritt, Samantha (September 14, 2020). "Slave ship logbook in library provides new insight into the slave trade in North America". The Georgetown Voice. Retrieved January 17, 2025.
- "Duelling in old New Orleans". HathiTrust. pp. 9–12. Retrieved January 17, 2025.
- "Robert Sterry (1782–1820), Rhode Island". Daily National Intelligencer and Washington Express. February 9, 1820. p. 3. Retrieved January 17, 2025.
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