SYNOPSIS

PAPER BLACK

A bloodletting event is brewing on the horizon in AMERICA. Mr. Cooke a wealthy ship owner is at a tavern In Alabama as he consumes alcohol Mr. Cooke meets Captain Slade, as they drink Mr. Cooke takes a liking to Slade, and after a few words they share, he blurts out his desire to pursue slaves from Ouida a port in Africa and he offers Captain Slade to take on this task. A slave ship Clotilda starts its journey to the U.S. in 1859, the slave ship arrives that summer in West Africa. The King of Dahomey's forces raided the Yoruba village bringing captives to the large slave market at the port of Whydah. Yoruba Princess Kiya was amongst the ones kidnapped, a journey that took its toll on the African men, women, and children bound together by ropes, chains, or wooden yokes. Captain paid the traders for the slaves, and he arrived in Mobile Bay 45 days later, where the slaves would be sold to the investors at a remote swampy spot in Mobile -Tensaw Delta in the night, later the slaves are transported to a steamboat to Africatown a few miles from Mobile, Alabama. As the ship approaches the mobile river a slave dies in the lower berth and she takes his place in the wrappings the crew throws the slave overboard unaware that it is Princess Kiya, she cuts through the wrappings and escapes before the ship is set on fire in a remote place in the DELTA.