James Stout
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
But then in 1767, his former owner, Lyle, sees Jonathan on the street and is like, he's alive and healthy.
And he gets really fucking angry.
How dare that boy have the temerity to survive my beating and not hand himself back over to me?
He stole himself, basically.
He stole himself.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So.
Lyle doesn't want to deal with Strong anymore, but he works.
He says like, hey, I own this guy and he's really healthy.
You just got to go get him if you give me 30 pounds.
So he like sells this guy and then he hires slave catchers to abduct Strong out of his new life.
Yeah.
He's a real stand-up guy.
Great dude.
Months of conflict.
Granville Sharp, who has been studying the law, is like, you can't do this.
He's a free man now.
You can't make him leave.
You can't take him to another foreign country, right?