{"product_id":"kidnapped-at-sea-9781421449517","title":"Kidnapped at Sea","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Henry White, a free Black teenage sailor from Lewes, Delaware, was kidnapped by Captain Raphael Semmes of the Confederate raider \u003ci\u003eAlabama\u003c\/i\u003e on October 9, 1862, from the Philadelphia-based packet ship \u003ci\u003eTonawanda.\u003c\/i\u003e White remained captive on the \u003ci\u003eAlabama\u003c\/i\u003e for over 600 days, until he drowned during the Battle of Cherbourg on June 19, 1864.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a best-selling postwar memoir, Semmes falsely described White as a contented slave who remained loyal to the Confederacy. In \u003ci\u003eKidnapped at Sea\u003c\/i\u003e, archaeologist Andrew Sillen uses a forensic approach to describe White''s enslavement and demise and illustrates how White''s actual life belies the Lost Cause narrative his captors sought to construct.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49529539101015,"sku":"9781421449517","price":24.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421449517.jpg?v=1731876014","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/kidnapped-at-sea-9781421449517","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}