James Stout

So this is, you know, a positive end, and this is his first direct encounter with slavers, but it's not going to be his last.

Not long after this, he and his sister are minding the house while their parents are away.

Two men and a woman jump over the walls, steal them both, cover their mouths, and sprint off with them into the woods.

For the next few days, they're taken through the woods, bound and gagged during the day.

He wrote that the only comfort we had was in being in each other's arms all that night and bathing each other with our tears."

And this single comfort was not to last long.

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So horrific.

It's pretty bad.

Yeah.

He's taken first to a village several days away while he is purchased by a local chieftain.

And that's the thing.

He's not, this is not like a, often you're taken straight to the coast where you're sold.

You are now a slave and you will be sold around.

Like a lot of these people do just stay in Africa.

Right.

And maybe get free or maybe don't, but he is a slave to local Africans for a while.

Right.

His first owner is a local chieftain who treats him really well.

And he thinks has adopted him into the family.