ASIN: B00TM9JARY
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 186
From Slavery to FreedomA true personal account of the capture of a slave-runner ship and how a Confederate War Hero emancipates 400 slaves. It is told by John Taylor Wood, who, in 1850, had been a young midshipmen on the Porpoise in the Gulf of Guinea off the coast of West Africa, at the mouth of the Niger River.The True StoryThe captain and crew of the Porpoise sight a slave-running ship, give chase, fire upon it, capture, board, and take its captain and crew into custody, in irons and under guard. Wood describes: "From the time we first got on board we had heard moans, cries, and rumblings coming from below, and as soon as the captain and crew were removed, the hatches had been taken off, when there arose a hot blast as from a charnel house, sickening and overpowering. In the hold were three or four hundred human beings, gasping, struggling for breath, dying; their bodies, limbs ...
