‘He was the first’: Vincent Leggett remembered as a singular voice for Black history of the Chesapeake Bay

Carnelious Jones was volunteering aboard the Amistad, a replica of the historic cargo schooner, when Vince Leggett walked into his life. Jones, whose company had donated fuel to the Amistad, had been told that an “admiral” would board the vessel before it sailed into Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. So Jones, a Navy veteran, expected a stern…