…and asked for government protection. The African survivors were taken to New London, CT, imprisoned and charged with piracy and murder. Brooklyn abolitionists Simeon Jocelyn, a Williamsburg resident, and Lewis Tappan, a Brooklyn Heights resident, worked closely with the African prisoners, and after a high-profile court case, they were freed. Later, Jocelyn and others, formed the American Missionary Association, an organization dedicated to abolit…