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On July 4, 1861, the schooner S. J. Waring establish sail from New York on a routine voyage to South America. Seventeen days later it limped back into New York's harbor with the ship's dark cook and steward at the helm. While the story of that ill-fated voyage is one of the most harrowing tales of captivity and success on the high seas, it's been tragically lost to record. Now reclaiming William Tillman as the American hero he deserves to be, historian Brian McGinty needs listeners on a courageous journey that recounts how a free dark man could recapture his commandeered ship from Confederate privateers, defy their initiatives to make him a slave, and become an unlikely glimmer of expect a disheartened Union army in the war-battered North. The Leftovers I Will Get rid of emerges as a thrilling yet historically significant work about race, patriotism, and personal heroism during the Civil War.
