I remember an interview of a former slave who lived to be the oldest person in the U.S. this was back in the 60s and he lived in North Central Florida.
He said the way he was captured to be a slave was he was told there was a fritter tree on the boat. He went to get one and they kept him. He also loved his slave master and the slave master’s children and grand children looked after him as long as he lived.
***He said the way he was captured to be a slave was he was told there was a fritter tree on the boat.***
I remember reading about this back in the 1960s! I can’t remember how he got on the boat but one of the sailors told him that in America, pancakes grew on fritter trees.
“He said the way he was captured to be a slave was he was told there was a fritter tree on the boat. He went to get one and they kept him.”
That may be how they captured him after an escape; if he was born in Africa he wouldn’t have known what a fritter was, and we’d long since stopped shipping slaves here by then anyway.