Extracts from Five Black Writers

After being on Shore [in Havana] another Twelvemonth, I endeavour’d to make my Escape the second Time, by trying to get on board of a Sloop bound to Jamaica, and as I was going from the City to the Sloop, was unhappily taken by the Guard, and ordered back to the Castle, and there confined. —However, in a short time I was set at Liberty, and order’d with a Number of others to carry the Bishop from the Castle, thro’ the Country, to confirm the old People, baptize Children, c—The Beaver, an English Man of War then lay in the Harbour, and having been informed by some of the Ship’s Crew that she was to sail in a few Days, I had nothing now to do, but to seek an Opportunity how I should make my Escape.