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Phase One and Two Fact: The HMS Jersey was converted into a hospital ship in March 1771. HMS Jersey (1736). 18 Jan. 2021, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Jersey_(1736).

Phase Three “HMS Jersey.” Ships of the World, Houghton Mifflin, 1997, pp. Ships of the World, Houghton Mifflin, 1997. This document talks about what type of prisoners were taken aboard the HMS Jersey. Where the article just says soldiers, this article goes into detail that it was captured Men of the Continental Army who were of different races not just white. “ by Howard Skrill: Detail from Mary Cuddihee Skrill's Wallabout Bay, Pencil on Paper, 2015.” War, Literature, and the Arts, vol. 29, no. 1, 2017, pp. War, literature, and the arts, 2017–01-01, Vol.29 (1). This document talks about Hessian German Mercenaries as well as British loyalists who were captured on the HMS Jersey and how their remains were left on the ship as it was burned and then later sunk into the bay as the British abandoned the HMS Jersey because they could not beat the rebellion.

Phase Four Fact 1: " During the American Revolution, she was used as a prison ship for captured Continental Army soldiers, and her name is synonymous with the squalor and deprivation to which American poisoners were subject. Thousands of prisoners were crammed below decks where there were virtually no natural light or fresh air and few provisions for the sick. Political conditions only made things worse, as the British had no intention in legitimizing the cause of independence by exchanging prisoners, and General George Washington had no interest in surrendering professional British soldiers for his ragtag volunteers"

Summary 1: Continental Army soldiers were held under inhumane situations under the deck because they were not recognized as people by the British Army and wouldn't even be considered as political prisoners who could be traded.

Fact 2: "Brooklyn swarmed with soldiers in 1776, regulars in the American army that had recently been established, American militiamen, Hessian German mercenaries, British colonial invaders and loyalist militias. Russel was able to view the Jersey moored in Wallabout Bay, offshore of what is today's Brooklyn Navy Yard. He remarks "Her wreck still remains, and at low ebb, presents to the world its accursed and blighted fragments. Twice in twenty-four hours the winds of Heaven sigh through it, and repeat the groans of our expiring countrymen; and twice the ocean hides in her bosom those deadly and polluted ruins, which all her waters can not purify"."

Summary 2: Many soldiers were held in the HMS Jersey from different races and ethnicities. German mercenaries, American soldiers, and African American soldiers were all held in the Jersey and experienced it's harsh conditions many dying in the cruelty enforced by the British army.

Wikipedia Article: In March 1771, the aging Jersey was converted to a hospital ship[1] In the winter of 1779–1780, she was hulked and converted to a prison ship in Wallabout Bay, New York, which would later become the Brooklyn Navy Yard.[4] The conditions in which the American prisoners were kept were harsh. Many soldiers were held in the HMS Jersey from different races and ethnicities. German mercenaries, American soldiers, and African American soldiers were all held in the Jersey and experienced it's harsh conditions many dying in the cruelty enforced by the British army. Thousands of men were crammed below decks where there was no natural light or fresh air and few provisions for the sick and hungry. Continental Army soldiers were held under inhumane situations under the deck because they were not recognized as people by the British Army and wouldn't even be considered as political prisoners who could be traded. As many as 1,100 men were imprisoned at a time in a ship designed for 400 sailors,[4] and as many as 8,000 prisoners were registered on Jersey over the course of the war.[5] Sailor and future abolitionist James Forten was one of those imprisoned aboard her during this period after being captured in a privateer.[6] Political tensions only made the prisoners' days worse, as the prisoners were targeted for mistreatment by angered guards. As many as eight corpses a day were buried from the Jersey alone before the British surrendered at Yorktown on 19 October 1781.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] When the British evacuated New York at the end of 1783, Jersey was abandoned and burned.