Crossing the River

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Water. To a large extent my life has been determined by a journey across water. An actual journey. Across the Atlantic Ocean. I cannot remember the journey that I am speaking of. In all likelihood it occurred sometime in the eighteenth century. Seventeen hundred and something. I was captured and sold into the custody of an English man. A slave ship captain, acting on behalf of a company whose headquarters were probably located in Liverpool, or Bristol, or London. And, thereafter, I began my long-forgotten journey. Chained and manacled in the hold of a ship. No longer a son, or a brother. A husband or a father. I was simply an object of commerce who, upon my arrival in the Americas, would be once again sold, this time into a life of unrewarded labour. I am not complaining. These are just facts. But, mercifully, as I said, I cannot remember the journey. (163)

Although 1776 started well for the American cause with the evacuation of British troops from Boston in March, the defense of New York City went quite poorly for the patriots. British General William Howe landed troops on Long Island in August and had pushed George Washington's Continental Army completely out of New York by mid-November, when he captured the remaining troops on Manhattan. [1]Anon (24 July 1896). "Thames Bridges no. XLIII. 92.-Water Eaton Bridge". Engineering. 62: 105–6 . Retrieved 27 October 2023. Schuyler, Hamilton (1929). A history of Trenton, 1679-1929. Princeton: Princeton University Press: The Trenton Historical Society. And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,) Donald R. Prothero (13 July 2006). After the Dinosaurs: The Age of Mammals. Indiana University Press. p.304. ISBN 0-253-00055-6.

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