![]() ( April 2011) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. A slave would be worked until close to death, and then either traded or killed. Horribly mistreated, they were beaten, sun-burnt, starved, and forced to drink their own and camel urine. He told of the events leading to their capture by marauding Sahrawi natives who kept them as slaves. Lost in this unknown world, Captain Riley felt responsible for his crew and their safety. ![]() This true story describes how they came to be shipwrecked, and their travails in the Sahara Desert. The book was published in 1817 and was originally titled Authentic Narrative of the Loss of the American Brig Commerce by the "Late Master and Supercargo" James Riley, modernly republished as Sufferings in Africa, and comes down to us today as a startling switch on the usual master-slave relationship. He led his crew through the Sahara Desert after they were shipwrecked off the coast of Western Sahara in August 1815. Riley was the Captain of the American merchant ship Commerce. ![]() ![]() The memoir relates how Riley and his crew were captured in Africa after being shipwrecked in 1815. Sufferings in Africa is an 1817 memoir by James Riley. Print ( hardcover, paperback), audio cassette ![]()
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