KIDNAPPED AT SEA: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White- Lessons in History Presentation
KIDNAPPED AT SEA: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White- Lessons in History Presentation
Join us for the Lessons in History Speaker Series on December 7, 2024, 1:00 - 2:00 pm, as Andrew Sillen presents the Blockbuster book Kidnapped at Sea. About the book: KIDNAPPED AT SEA: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White: On the anniversary of his kidnapping, the recovered story of David Henry White – a free Black teenager who was enslaved on a Confederate warship for over 600 days before dying in the 1864 Battle of Cherbourg and whose life has been misrepresented and unjustly appropriated for 150 years. For over 150 years, historians have recycled the fable that David Henry White – a free Black teenage sailor from Delaware who was kidnapped by the Confederate raider Alabama on October 9, 1862 – remained on the ship for 600 days of his own volition, working for reduced wages and embracing the master-servant relationship under the controversial and racist figure of Captain Raphael Semmes. This version of White’s life, primarily based on Semmes’s self-serving post-war Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, strips White of his humanity and advances a false Lost Cause narrative. It is also absolutely false, according to a new blockbuster histo ry: Kidnapped […]
