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Explore the intricate themes of confinement and longing in "Captives," where the complexities of human experience are laid bare. This podcast delves into the emotional landscapes of characters who wrestle with feelings of isolation and the profound impact of their environments. Each episode features a new complete audiobook that reflects on the nuances of entrapment—be it physical, emotional, or societal—inviting listeners to engage with a diverse array of narratives that resonate with the human condition. This is not a single story but a series of unique explorations that challenge ...

A total of 305,000 enslaved Africans arrived in the New World aboard American vessels over a span of two hundred years as American merchants and mariners sailed to Africa and to the Caribbean to acquire and sell captives. Using exhaustive archival research, including many collections that have never been used before, historian Sean M. Kelley argues that slave trading needs to be seen as integral to the larger story of American slavery.

In 1785, a young American named James Leander Cathcart is kidnapped at sea and carried as prisoner to the maverick North African statelet of Algiers. The piratical corsairs of Algiers have decided to exploit the vulnerability of the United States by seizing its mariners and holding them for ransom. Today, the name of James Leander Cathcart has been all but forgotten.

A History of the Amistad Captives was written and published by John Warner Barber in 1840. The Amistad was a Spanish slave ship on which the slaves revolted and eventually reached the United States. This insightful document sheds light on the Amistad incident and its participants, the complex legal issues around the transatlantic slave trade, and the lives of the captured Africans who finally regained their freedom.