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Cyprian Sterry (c. 1753 – September 1, 1825) was an 18th-century American slave trader. A native of Rhode Island, he served in the American Revolutionary War as a quartermaster and brigade major.

Career

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."

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

  1. "Founders Online: To George Washington from Brigadier General James Mitchell Var …". founders.archives.gov. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
  2. ^ "Journal of the Slave Ship Mary". repository.library.georgetown.edu. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
  3. Tritt, Samantha (2020-09-14). "Slave ship logbook in library provides new insight into the slave trade in North America". The Georgetown Voice. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
  4. "Duelling in old New Orleans". HathiTrust. pp. 9–12. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
  5. "Robert Sterry (1782–1820), Rhode Island". Daily National Intelligencer and Washington Express. 1820-02-09. p. 3. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
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