The Negro Runaway Slave

The Negro Runaway Slave is the story of teenagers captured in a remote village of Kaltungo in Nigeria West Africa through perpetrated hostilities of tribal and communal clashes. Sold into slavery and taken to the United States of America. They were loaded and were packed on top of each other like cargoes; others were seated at the little space between others legs, while the most stubborn ones were chained together by their feet, hands and necks before being loaded into the ship into the ships to America. There was no approved sitting arrangement pattern or position inside the ship, no uniformity. Though the ship was big and large, which was designed to carry the largest number of slaves, it was obviously insufficient for their number. Aboard the ship was an experience one would never forget all the days of one's life. Hundreds were crowded and packed into the vessel, cramped in sitting and squatting positions in silence which was only broken by creaks of their bones and joints. To say they suffered was a very great understatement. Their conditions were drastic and horrible, their sufferings were too eminent as the vessel became a channel and permanent route to death. Most of them preferred to die than to live in such a condition; and endure the horrors and sufferings to the end. They arrived 'The New World' day a white-haired man was being sworn as the first president of the United States in New York City. A day where thousands and thousands of people were rushing to The Wall Street to witness the swearing in of the first president George Washington was taking place that morning in Wall Street.In the United States they struggled to survived the oppression of slavery against all odds. They work from early morning before the sun rose and continued until darkness fell when they could no more see. They often worked well into the night at busiest times such as harvest time and had little or no time for themselves. They were told when to work, where to work how to do the work, and even when to meet with their wives, which in turn determined when they in turn would give birth. Meetings between husband and wives from different plantations occurred only with the permission of the husbands owners. They were seriously punished by beating and whipping if they did not obey their masters or did not work. Their families were often torn apart when members were sold separately and their children were denied the opportunity to be seen, or treated by doctors, and their wives put to bed unattended to by midwives. All that their owners wanted and cared for was our duties and services to them.Battered and demoralized by the brutalities and injustices involved in slavery they yearn to be free from its clutches. Motivated by their strong faith to be free they ran away to freedom in America, but finally discovered that true freedom meant nothing than taking the risk of returning back to Kaltungo and reuniting with their loved ones who they learn were still alive!

Author: Bitrus Micah Layopeh

Publisher: Independently Published

Publication Date: Jan 08, 2021

Number of Pages: 90 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: NA

ISBN-13: 9798592134333