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SLAVES An Untold Story of International Servitude
SLAVES An Untold Story of International Servitude
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Isaac Logan, a Yankee sailor, is abducted from the streets of London in 1740 and through the use of false documents he is sent as forced labor to Barbados. His life there was one that not many northerners could survive. Isaac barely did.
The British navy visited Barbados seeking seamen and presses Logan into service on a Navy Man-of-War. Sailing into the Mediterranean he observes the North African slave trade as controlled by the Arab nations. Life aboard a British Man-of-War is harsh, but Isaac is exchanged for a senior seaman from a slave ship operating along the coast of Africa.
In an effort to reach home, Isaac signs on as a mate aboard a convict/immigrant ship sailing from England. Because of the rigors of transatlantic sailing there is a significant loss of life. All new arrivals without papers were auctioned to the highest bidder to serve a period of indentured servitude.
Claiming a ship from his family as part of his inheritance Isaac himself enters the slave trade. He negotiates with kings and chieftains along the West African coast to purchase and carry thousands of slaves across the Atlantic.
Two hundred and fifty years later a Logan family owned newspaper in Boston launches a series of articles about slavery. Many subjects are addressed including Spartacus in 50 B.C. to present day Somalia. The newspaper writes about reparations and the buying of freedom for some of the 20,000,000 slaves in the world today.
The British navy visited Barbados seeking seamen and presses Logan into service on a Navy Man-of-War. Sailing into the Mediterranean he observes the North African slave trade as controlled by the Arab nations. Life aboard a British Man-of-War is harsh, but Isaac is exchanged for a senior seaman from a slave ship operating along the coast of Africa.
In an effort to reach home, Isaac signs on as a mate aboard a convict/immigrant ship sailing from England. Because of the rigors of transatlantic sailing there is a significant loss of life. All new arrivals without papers were auctioned to the highest bidder to serve a period of indentured servitude.
Claiming a ship from his family as part of his inheritance Isaac himself enters the slave trade. He negotiates with kings and chieftains along the West African coast to purchase and carry thousands of slaves across the Atlantic.
Two hundred and fifty years later a Logan family owned newspaper in Boston launches a series of articles about slavery. Many subjects are addressed including Spartacus in 50 B.C. to present day Somalia. The newspaper writes about reparations and the buying of freedom for some of the 20,000,000 slaves in the world today.
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