Richard Crafus
Richard Crafus, known as King Dick ( 1783 -  1835), was an American imprisoned by the British in Dartmoor Prison during the War of 1812.  King Dick was a privateer who had been captured during the war. Although the prison held non-Americans, these were released around the end of the war.  The Americans were held longer. In the prison, this tall African-American became the leader of black inmates after the white Americans successfully petitioned the prison administration for segregation.  The prison division that King Dick led was Prison Number Four.  According to memoirs written by white inmates, he ruled strictly and fairly.  This meant that life in Prison Number Four more desirable than elsewhere in Dartmoor Prison. Because King Dick allowed whites to transfer to Number Four, many whites did so.  In 1815, the British released the American prisoners of war.