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Sufferings in Africa is an 1817 memoir by James Riley. The memoir relates how Riley and his crew were enslaved in Africa after being shipwrecked in 1815. Riley was the Captain of the American merchant ship Commerce. He led his crew through the Sahara Desert after they were shipwrecked off the coast of Western Sahara in August 1815.
Once back on American shores, Riley devoted himself to anti-slavery work but eventually returned to a life at sea.. He died March 13, 1840, on his vessel the Brig William Tell which he was sailing from New York to "St. Thomas in the Caribbean" [a] [5] "of disease caused by unparalleled suffering more than twenty years previous during his shipwreck and captivity on the desert of Sahara".
William Willshire was born in London in 1790 and spent his early life there. [3] Having gained employment with the London-based, English trading house James Renshaw and Co, he was despatched to Mogadore (Essaouira), Morocco as the company's agent in early 1814, partnering a successful mercantile establishment that was engaged in trading between Mogadore and Great Britain with the resident ...
Commerce was a Connecticut-based American merchant sailing ship that ran aground on 28 August 1815 [1] at Cape Bojador, off the coast of Morocco.Far more famous than the ship itself is the story of the crew who survived the shipwreck, who went on to become slaves of local tribes who captured them.
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Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival is a 2004 nonfiction book written by maritime historian Dean King. [1] [2] It is based on two of the survivors' journals, primarily Captain James Riley's memoir Sufferings in Africa.
James Riley, 28, strangled student Ellie Moxham and left her unconscious on a Manchester hotel room floor in November 2022. Former police officer jailed over ‘jealous rage’ attack on ex-girlfriend
James Mangold misses the era when movies weren’t embarrassed to make audiences feel something. The director of the Bob Dylan musical biopic “A Complete Unknown” and comic book adaptation ...