Kidnapped at Sea: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White (Andrew Sillen - CH) weapon or ‘fresh fish’

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a solitary Union soldier lacked any standard means of identification

and his serious bouts of depression in early adulthood

Kidnapped at Sea: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White (Andrew Sillen - CH) weapon or ‘fresh fish’by Andrew Sillen The true story of David Henry White, a free Black teenage sailor enslaved on the high seas during the Civil War, whose life story was falsely and intentionally appropriated to advance the Lost Cause trope of a contented slave, happy and safe in servility. David Henry White, a free Black teenage sailor from Lewes, Delaware, was kidnapped by Captain Raphael Semmes of the Confederate raider Alabama on October 9, 1862, from the