Sufferings in Africa
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Sufferings in Africa

Captain Riley’s NarrativeBy Captain James RileyNarrated by Brian Emerson
Length9h 55m

About this audiobook

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
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