Shift #27 - Webinar Pre-work, Email Response & Collections Research
Wednesday, June 19, 2024 | 6:30-8 pm CST/7:30-9 pm EST (1 hr 30 min)
On Friday, I have a Resume Clinic webinar that I will be attending. We were told to have our most recent resume ready. As far as the pre-work activity, I needed to list 2 accomplishments as a result of my internship (or two things I expect to have that I would want to add to my resume). In a way, this is an odd one for me to think about because I'm not an undergraduate student with no work experience. On the contrary, I have more than two decades of work experience. I think this puts me in a unique spot as a participant. I don't think I have any internship accomplishments I can count yet, since I'm not done with the program. However, I know that I've been learning skills these past few weeks, since I began on May 20. By the end of these 12 weeks, I think I will have accomplished:
- Research skills
- I will strengthen my research and project management skills through a focused research plan and mentorship.
- I will have conducted in-depth research and presented my findings through a neutral lens.
- Career discovery
- I will have learned about different career paths within the Library of Congress and narrowed down my options.
Also, Jennifer responded to my week 4 check-in email and inadvertently reminded me of sources outside of my primary ones. I think there's so much to read through that I feel I'm a little behind on my research. I need to focus!
I spent the rest of the shift continuing my research on Robert Kidd. I found an image that I could use, should I decide that Kidd will be a featured pirate. Long story short, after all his piracy, Kidd went to New York thinking he would be pardoned for his crimes. He was put on trial for piracy and the murder of the Muslim crewman. Nine of his former crew had also surrendered (hoping for clemency due to the king's proclamation) and they too were also put on trial. Kidd protested his innocence and blamed his crew for piracy. He even denied allegations of his partnership with Culliford. He was found guilty of his crimes but still maintained his innocence. Right before he was executed, Kidd confessed all his criminal acts. He and six of the captured crewmen all died by hanging and their bodies were displayed publicly for some years along the Thames River.
I ended up my shift looking at a new pirate, Francis Frederick. There was nothing noteworthy about Frederick before his life of piracy. Where his story begins is in Baltimore where he joined a schooner called Romp. The ship and crew were declared as a privateer, under the banner of Buenos Aires. The schooner then became the San Ofone, with orders to take a Spanish brig with a lot of specie (currency in the form of coins instead of bank notes). The San Ofone was not successful in taking this Spanish brig (coming out of Philadelphia) but met some other Spanish vessels along their journey to Cadiz (an ancient port city in southwestern Spain). Heading south, they took a few other vessels including a polacca (a Mediterranean sailing vessel) where its captain was injured through stabbing and an English passenger became a victim of theft (by way of his fifteen thousand pounds being stolen from him). The San Ofone eventually let the polacca go but not without threatening their lives first.
From there, there was disagreement among the officers. The sailing master told the crew they were actually traveling without official papers/orders and that if they were caught, they would be tried as pirates and executed. The crew mutinied against the captain and all the officers, who were then bound. The crew split the wealth they had accumulated but once the crew ran across an English sloop, they gave them the officers and then went on their way, sailing back to Baltimore. Once they arrived, they abandoned ship and went to different directions to start new lives. Frederick's share of the plunder was $500 and with it, he wanted to go into trade/legitimate business with a partner. However, he heard that some of his fellow crew were arrested. He abandoned his plans and sailed to Gibraltar on the Plattsburg. Unfortunately I think something is missing from the document because this is how the passage ends on Frederick. I wish I knew what happened next!
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