How Africans Were Lured into the First Slave Ship’ Jesus of Lubeck

John Hawkins encouraged the Africans to enter his boat “Jesus of Lubeck,” otherwise called “The Good Ship Jesus.” for salvation.

The people who entered soon found out they could not leave the ship.

Jesus of Lubeck was a cruising ship built in the City of Lübeck in the mid-sixteenth century.

By the year 1540 the ship was purchased by Henry VIII, King of England, to expand his fleet.

Jesus of Lubeck was later chartered to John Hawkins in 1562 by Queen Elizabeth I after it sank during a Battle.

The ship became associated with the Atlantic slave exchange under John Hawkins.

He effectively coordinated four journeys to West Africa and the West Indies somewhere in the range of 1562 and 1568.

300 Africans were captured from Sierra Leone and later sold to Spanish ranches in the Americas.

A record holds that Hawkins who professed to be a passionate Christian found the S