Interpretation. This answer is an interpretation or an open question.
Yes. The ship was called the “Jesus of Lübeck.” This answer comes from history, not from Scripture.
For a time, African Muslims, also called Moors, took Europeans as slaves. They did this because the Europeans were Christians and would not become Muslims. Christian Europeans did the same thing in return. They made slaves of Moors they captured in battle. Christopher Columbus was even helped by a Moor named Pedro Alonso Niño, whose mother was a slave in Spain.
After Columbus, a European Christian named John Hawkins wanted to make money by trading slaves. He had a ship named the “Jesus of Lübeck.” It was an early English slave ship, but not the first one. Portuguese and Spanish ships carried slaves before it. He used it to carry slaves to the Americas to sell to the Spanish. He said he got them “partly by the sword and partly by other means.” Other traders saw how much money Hawkins was making.
Hawkins took many of his slaves in battles with Moors. Later, European traders found it paid better to trade goods with the Moors for slaves. One writer, Valentim Fernandes, said a group that included Muslims were “drunkards who derive great pleasure from our wine.”
This is when Hebrews who would not become Muslims began to be traded. Before this, many of the slaves taken from Africa were Moors captured in war. But once rum from the Americas and other strong drinks were used to buy slaves, the Moors began trading Hebrew prisoners to the Europeans. Taught of Yah sees this as what the prophet Joel foretold.
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