Sufferings in Africa

<DIV><FONT face=Times New Roman><DIV>In this classic tale of adventure a young American sea captain named James Riley shipwrecked off the western coast of North Africa in 1915 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.</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>This dramatic account of Captain Riley's trials and sufferings sold more than 1000000 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.</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>Sufferings in Africa is a classic travel-adventure narrative and a fascinating testament of white Americans enslaved abroad - during a time when slavery flourished through the United States. </DIV></FONT></DIV>