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This is not forgetting that the enemies always “break” their own laws when confronted by freedom fighters who have studied them properly. Defeating them is only a matter of applying common sense and doing what needs to be done https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/09/breaking-nnamdi-kanu-files-n5bn-lawsuit-against-fg-demands-return-to-britain/amp/ 4 years ago ·
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There was a very clever and decent free young mulatto-man who sailed a long time with us: he had a free woman for his wife, by whom he had a child; and she was then living on shore, and all very happy. Our captain and mate, and other people on board, and several elsewhere, even the natives of Bermudas, all knew this young man from a child that he was always free, and no one had ever claimed him as their property: however, as might too often overcomes right in these parts, it happened that a Bermudas captain, whose vessel lay there for a few days in the road, came on board of us, and seeing the mulatto-man, whose name was Joseph Clipson, he told him he was not free, and that he had orders from his master to bring him to Bermudas. The poor man could not believe the captain to be in earnest; but he was very soon undeceived, his men laying violent hands on him: and although he shewed a certificate of his being born free in St. Kitt’s, and most people on board knew that he served his time to boat building, and always passed for a free man, yet he was taken forcibly out of our vessel. He then asked to be carried ashore before the secretary or magistrates, and these infernal invaders of human rights promised him he should; but, instead of that, they carried him on board of the other vessel: and the next day, without giving the poor man any hearing on shore, or suffering him even to see his wife or child, he was carried away, and probably doomed never more in this world to see them again. – THE NARRATIVE OF OLAUDAH EQUIANO, ALSO KNOWN AS GUSTAVUS VASSA. WRITTEN BY HIMSELF (1789)-
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The Journal of Negro History
Vol. 26, No. 2 (Apr., 1941), pp. 171-202 (32 pages)
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