Voyage to a Thousand Cares

"Through Lawrence's eyes we see the men of the Yorktown in action and encounter many other nineteenth-century figures engaged in or attempting to combat the slave trade. Among the cast of characters are an infamous slave-ship captain, an abolitionist slave-owning minister, the Yorktown's admirable skipper, Liberian colonists, and native Africans. In a final journal entry we bear witness to Lawrence's nearly overwhelming confrontation with the horrors of slavery as he records his experiences aboard a captured slave ship on the way to Liberia with more than nine hundred slaves.".