Freedom and Slavery (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Freedom and Slavery<br><br>In the early years of the seventeenth century took place two important voyages from England to America. One of the vessels was named the Treasurer and the other the Mayflower. A period of only sixteen months separated their arrival in America. One of these brought slaves and the other the Pilgrim fathers into what was long afterward the United States. One was loaded with black men, ignorant, savage, manacled, scourged by the lash and brutalized by former slavery: the other brought men and women deeply religious, some of them cultured and all sternly devoted to what they thought was just and right.<br><br>In April, 1618, the Treasurer, commanded by Captain Daniel Elfrith, left England and arrived in Virginia late in the summer of the same year. Captain Elfrith had from the Duke of Savoy a commission empowering him to seize the property of Spaniards. This vessel was little better than a pirate, as England was then at peace with Spain. Gov. Argall, of Virginia, aided in refitting the vessel and supplied her with the most desperate men he could find. Captain Elfrith then left Virginia for the Barbadoes, where he remained six weeks in the winter of 1618-19.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.