Shandunka - A Man Apart - The Last Voyage of the Slave Ship

<p>Samuel Brathwaite has not had an easy life. He was kidnapped as a young boy and raised by Paiute Indians. Taken away from his home at a young age and raised in a completely different environment changed and shaped the young boy to be something else. His original name was dropped and the Paiutes called him Shandunka giving him a completely new life and identity from what he might have had.</p><p>Shandunka has never felt welcome with either the white settlers of his origin or with the Paiutes who abducted and raised him. The former view him as a unique oddity a white man trying to be a savage and the Paiutes view him as an outsider that was never really part of their tribe.</p><p>This sense of disconnect of being a man apart haunts Shandunka for the rest of his life.</p>