Samuel Rishworth was a Councillor of the

Providence Island colony The Providence Island colony was established in 1630 by English Puritans on what is now the Colombian Department of San Andrés and Providencia, about east of the coast of Nicaragua. Although intended to be a model Puritan co ...

and one of the first

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abolitionists Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement, is the movement to end slavery. In Western Europe and the Americas, abolitionism was a historic movement that sought to end the Atlantic slave trade and liberate the enslaved people. The British ...

. Rishworth arrived at

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with Henry Halhead in 1632 aboard the ship ''Charity''.

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