http://peoplesworld.org/a-tribute-to-capt-hugh-mulzac/
Many working seamen from the Caribbean area signed on ships and came to the U.S. when their vessels docked there. The majority who settled undoubtedly contributed along with other immigrants in building up that nation. One was Captain Hugh Mulzac, a merchant marine captain who was born in 1886 in Union Island, part of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, in the Eastern Caribbean. He emigrated to Baltimore in 1918.
Mulzac was an important person in the early U.S. civil rights struggles of "people of color" which included Hispanics, Asians and native Indian ("Amerindian") peoples. He was the first African-American to obtain a Master's License. This was the rank of Captain which qualified him to skipper an ocean-going cargo ship.
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