Kidnapped at Sea: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White (Andrew Sillen - CH) weapon Jordan is a Hard Road

Jordan is a Hard Road to Travel

and loving-kindness meditations

I am almost embarrassed to say I discovered—or at least approached—the answer only late in life

adding considerably to the existing literature on the experiences of citizen soldiers in America’s Civil War

and his serious bouts of depression in early adulthood

Kidnapped at Sea: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White (Andrew Sillen - CH) weapon Jordan is a Hard Roadby Andrew Sillen 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