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Maritime

Many people of African descent were brought to Hull by the city's historic maritime industry. This section looks at their stories, including biographies of sailors and involvement in the Hull riots.
Marcus Bailey
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Barbadian seaman who lived in Hull, Fleetwood and Liverpool in the early twentieth century.
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Thomas Henry Biggs
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Jamaican-born sailor who lived an impoverished life in Hull - as reported by the Hull Daily Mail.
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Black seamen in Scarborough
Research into sailors in Scarborough by Charles R. Foy of Eastern Illinois University.
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Adolphus Meheux
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Black seaman living in Hull in the early part of the twentieth century who died in WW1.
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Hull's sailors
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The stories of the many Black seamen who have worked in Hull over the last two centuries.
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Hull's sailors: Second World War​
A follow-up to the story on Hull's sailors that focuses on Black sailors in the Second World War.
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Hull riots: Jacqueline Jenkinson
Extracts from Jacqueline Jenkinson's Black 1919: Riots, Racism and Resistance in Imperial Britain.
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Hull riots: Murrell Piggott
Barbadian brought to Hull through his seafaring career who became embroiled in the riots.
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Hull riots: Newspaper report
Original copy of the Hull Daily Mail report into the riots from Monday 21 June 1920.
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