Kidnapped at Sea: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White

The true story of David Henry White, a free Black teenage sailor enslaved on the high seas...
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Author: Andrew Sillen
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Kidnapped at Sea: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White by Sillen, Andrew

Kidnapped at Sea: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White

€46,68

Kidnapped at Sea: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White

€46,68
Author: Andrew Sillen
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

The 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.

David 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 ship Tonawanda. White remained captive on the Alabama for over 600 days, until he drowned during the Battle of Cherbourg on June 19, 1864.

In a best-selling postwar memoir, Semmes falsely described White as a contented slave who remained loyal to the Confederacy. In Kidnapped at Sea, 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.

Kidnapped at Sea is the first book to focus on White's actual life, rather than relying on Semmes and other secondary sources. Until now, Semmes's appropriation of White's life has escaped scrutiny, thereby demonstrating the challenges faced by disempowered, illiterate people--and how well-crafted, racist fabrications have become part of Civil War memory.



Author: Andrew Sillen
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 10/08/2024
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.38lbs
Size: 9.16h x 6.36w x 1.15d
ISBN: 9781421449517


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 09/15/2024 pg. 10

About the Author

Andrew Sillen is a visiting research scholar in the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University. He was formerly a professor of paleoanthropology and the founding director of development at the University of Cape Town and the vice president of institutional advancement at Brooklyn College.


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