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's heavy losses.
Patrick, unlike Ford, was a ruthless and sadistic man who in a drunken state questions Coumnas menacingly of robbery and mailing letters to his hometown in disguise. Coumnas can convince Patrick that no such atrocity has been committed while on the other hand he mournfully burns the letters.
A year passes by, and Coumnas begins working on the construction of a gazebo along with an American laborer Smith. He discovers that Smith shares the same ideology about slavery and expresses the circumstances under which he was bought here, and insists him to send the letters to his native state.
The days of Harry Coumnas' hardships were finally over when a local sheriff accompanied by two men arrives and asks him a series of questions to confirm the facts associated with the life he led in San Francisco. One of the two men had arrived to verify his identity who later embraces him. Furious Patrick protests the circumstances but the path for Coumnas' farewell had already been paved.
Emotional and heart-broken Harry cried as he walks up the stairs and catches the glimpse of his wife and fully grown-up daughters and their husbands. Guilt-ridden Harry apologizes to his family for his long absence while they soothe him.
Harry Coumnas file suits against the people who'd caused ferocities to him, ruining three precious decades of his life, and eventually emerge victorious in the end.
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's heavy losses.
Patrick, unlike Ford, was a ruthless and sadistic man who in a drunken state questions Coumnas menacingly of robbery and mailing letters to his hometown in disguise. Coumnas can convince Patrick that no such atrocity has been committed while on the other hand he mournfully burns the letters.
A year passes by, and Coumnas begins working on the construction of a gazebo along with an American laborer Smith. He discovers that Smith shares the same ideology about slavery and expresses the circumstances under which he was bought here, and insists him to send the letters to his native state.
The days of Harry Coumnas' hardships were finally over when a local sheriff accompanied by two men arrives and asks him a series of questions to confirm the facts associated with the life he led in San Francisco. One of the two men had arrived to verify his identity who later embraces him. Furious Patrick protests the circumstances but the path for Coumnas' farewell had already been paved.
Emotional and heart-broken Harry cried as he walks up the stairs and catches the glimpse of his wife and fully grown-up daughters and their husbands. Guilt-ridden Harry apologizes to his family for his long absence while they soothe him.
Harry Coumnas file suits against the people who'd caused ferocities to him, ruining three precious decades of his life, and eventually emerge victorious in the end.
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