"A rollicking adventure!"
The trilogy is now complete. I plan to publish Jack: Book 3, by August 1, 2017 as well as a separate volume with all three parts. Until then enjoy Books 1-3 here on Wattpad. I completed the trilogy on May 30, 2017. The c...
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When everyone assembled on deck, Jack announced that he called them all together to decide where the ship should go. The choices, he said, were to go to the free island of Jamaica, the free island of Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti), Mexico or back home to Africa. He said that, if the choice were Africa, the ship would land all of the darkies in Senegal, Guinea or another country but only one country and the people who were stolen from nearby countries would have to make their own way back. The great danger, said Jack, was that all of these were countries where slave-trading was practiced and they could easily be enslaved again on slave ships headed to the Caribbean Islands. Those who did not want to be returned to Africa could make the journey back with us to Jamaica and make a new start there. Mauricia and America spoke in English to some of the darkies who knew English and Guinea and Senegalese and those people interpreted in several languages so that all of the darkies understood the choices they were offered.
The other problem we faced was, if all of the darkies decided on Africa and Jamaica, we would have no-one to help sail the ship to Charleston. But we could not ask escaped slaves to help us sail to the southern United States. Even Mauritia and America planned to return to Jamaica so that would leave just Jack and me.
"We'll cross that bridge when we come to it," Jack said.
"Okay then," said Jack. "With a show of hands, who wants to go back to Africa, to Senegal?"
We counted 71 of the 110 former slaves. The rest opted for Jamaica except for nine darkies who said they wanted to go to the USA with us. That presented Jack and me with both a problem and a solution. They could help sail the ship but would need to drop them off in a free state such as Delaware and then sail down the coast alone.
So it was agreed. We continued our course toward the African coast – to Senegal.
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