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  • Sufferings in Africa

  • By: James Riley
  • Narrated by: Brian Emerson
  • Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (17 ratings)

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Sufferings in Africa

By: James Riley
Narrated by: Brian Emerson
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In this classic tale of adventure, a young American sea captain named James Riley, shipwrecked off the western coast of North Africa in 1815, was 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 that 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.
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Historical Africa 19th Century Parents & Adult Children Teen & Young Adult
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"Reader Brian Emerson is monotonous and cool, punctuating sentences by prolonging the last word and dropping his voice. The didactic, well-pronounced delivery...makes the history seem plausible." (AudioFile)

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Interesting Read

Insight into the world of the many desert dwellers and the hardships they faced everyday. The acceptance of slavery and the plight of their captives

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Harrowing and inspirational.

This is a great story that leaves you humbled in face of the retelling of real hardship. it offers a great framework and insight on how to look at adversity in life.

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