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The Only African American Ship Captain on the West Coast of the United States in the Late-1880s and 1890s

William T. Shorey (July 13, 1859 – April 15, 1919) was a late 19th-century American whaling ship captain known to his crew as the Black Ahab.

Shorney was born in Barbados and spent his life at sea. After only ten years at sea, he became the only African American ship captain on the west coast of the United States in the late-1880s and 1890s. He obtained his certification in 1885. His whaling voyages were based out of San Francisco on the whaling bark John and Winthrop. The John and Winthrop was the only whaling ship in the world to be manned entirely by an African-American crew.
Shorey retired from whaling in 1908.

Onshore he lived in Oakland and worked on the docks as a special policeman for Pacific Coast Steamship Company from 1912 to 1919.

In 1919 he died from the Spanish flu pandemic. He is buried at Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, California.

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The Oduduwa Legend says that the ancestor of Oranmiyan, a son of Oduduwa.Upon an invitation from the Edo elders who ruled the kingdom after the demise of the Ogiso dynasty.

According to traditional history among the followers of Oduduwa were Ogeriso (Ogiso in Edo) who founded Ile-Ibinu now called Benin. When Ogeriso got to Ile-Ibinu (Benin),he met strong opposition from earlier settlers called Ogiamve and his subjects used to revolt against Ogeriso. The rulership was not easy but he managed through until he died. After his death, Edo elders sent to lle'Ife for an Oba, but he must be a royal blood of Oduduwa.

Oduduwa sent Oranmiyan to Edo to be their king and re-establish the monarchy.Oranmiyan found the Edo people very difficult to rule and left them, but meanwhile he had married an Edo girl, who gave birth to a son, Eweka. Eweka then became the ancestor of the present lineage of Edo monarchs.Since then,Edo monarchy had looked up to Ile-Ife as the source of its culture and as its origin.

Read the book entitled, Nigerian Peoples and Cultures edited by Professors Akinjide Osuntokun and Ayodeji Olukoju page 57,paragraph 2. The Oduduwa legend was very strong, even in modern days; during the Colonial rule; the British employed his influence through his ancestors to bring the Edo ruler and the Yoruba kings together under the indirect rule system. Oranmiyan was born and bred as the youngest and last son of Oduduwa in Ile-Ife where he reigned as the Ooni of Ife.

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