Kidnapped at Sea by Andrew Sillen HARDBACK 9781421449517

Kidnapped at Sea\nby Andrew Sillen\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 8\u20139 working days.\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Andrew Sillen\nTitle: Kidnapped at Sea\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press\nISBN-13: 9781421449517\nISBN-10: 142144951X\nRRP: \u00A327.50\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nThe true story of David Henry White, a free Black teenage sailor enslaved on the high seas during the Civil War, whose life story was falsely and intentionally appropriated to advance the Lost Cause trope of a contented slave, happy and safe in servility.\nDavid Henry White, a free Black teenage sailor from Lewes, Delaware, was kidnapped by Captain Raphael Semmes of the Confederate raider Alabama on October 9, 1862, from the Philadelphia-based packet sh.