{"product_id":"2940169751635","title":"Sufferings in Africa: Captain Riley's Narrative","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this classic true adventure story, a young American sea captain named James Riley, shipwrecked off the western coast of North Africa in 1815, is captured by a band of nomadic Arabs and sold into slavery. Thus begins an epic adventure of survival and a quest for freedom that takes him across the Sahara desert.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis dramatic account of Captain Riley¿s trials and sufferings sold more than one million copies in his day and was even read by a young and impressionable Abraham Lincoln. The degradations of a slave existence and the courage to survive under the most harrowing conditions have rarely been recorded with such painful honesty.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e Sufferings in Africa\u003c\/em\u003e is a classic travel-adventure narrative and a fascinating testament of white Americans enslaved abroad, during a time when slavery flourished throughout the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47100490776816,"sku":"2940169751635","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169751635_p0.jpg?v=1769899619","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169751635","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}