The Fascinating Story of Harry Coumnas Who Escaped the Brutal Clutches of Slavery
Harry Coumnas is a free American-African man who had been working as a guitarist in a band named "Crewmen" while living with his wife and two daughters in San Francisco. Coumnas had been leading a contended life until two white men arrive to offer him short-term employment as a lead singer, guitarist, and some extra dollars to save a fortune for the rest of his life. This new job promised a better life but fate seemed to have different plans since the white men drugged Coumnas to deliver him to a slave pen, run by a wealthy man Mustachi. Coumnas proclaims being a free man only to witness savage beatings with objects like leather straps and wooden paddles and forced to adapt to being a slave, given an identity of Glatt, a runaway slave from Georgia, and being sold to plantation owner Ford. Ford was a merciful man who gradually developed some liking for Harry Coumnas, but this affection couldn't last for too long since he was sold to another man Patrick, owing to Ford...