Voyage to a Thousand Cares

Download or read book Voyage to a Thousand Cares written by John C. Lawrence and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Through Lawrence's eyes we see the men of the Yorktown in action and encounter many other nineteenth-century figures engaged in or attempting to combat the slave trade. Among the cast of characters are an infamous slave-ship captain, an abolitionist slave-owning minister, the Yorktown's admirable skipper, Liberian colonists, and native Africans. In a final journal entry we bear witness to Lawrence's nearly overwhelming confrontation with the horrors of slavery as he records his experiences aboard a captured slave ship on the way to Liberia with more than nine hundred slaves.".