In 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.
This 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.
Sufferings in Africa 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.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir, History, Psychology
Length9 hrs 55 mins
Narrated byBrian Emerson
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateJan 1, 2006
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1
14Chapter 14
2Chapter 2
15Chapter 15
3Chapter 3
16Chapter 16
4Chapter 4
17Chapter 17
5Chapter 5
18Chapter 18
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6Chapter 6
19Chapter 19
7Chapter 7
20Chapter 20
8Chapter 8
21Chapter 21
9Chapter 9
22Chapter 22
10Chapter 10
23Chapter 23
11Chapter 11
24Chapter 24
12Chapter 12
25Chapter 25
13Chapter 13
26Chapter 26
About the author
Captain James Riley
Captain James Riley was the captain of the United States merchant ship Commerce. He was sold into slavery after he and his crew were shipwrecked off the coast of Africa and went on to write Sufferings in Africa, a memoir about his ordeal. Riley was also the founder of Willshire, Ohio, named after William Wilshire, the man who saved him from slavery.View all by Captain James Riley
