Timothy Clayton

Freedom Pirate Timothy Clayton

Llewellyn Powell knows the slave trade, and knows it from the inside. Now he wants to take it down... as a pirate. Llewellyn's father died in a logging accident in the great forests of Wales when Llewellyn was but a lad. Shortly after, Llewellyn ran off in hopes of sending some money back to his impoverished mother. Thinking he would find adventure and fortune he went to sea; what he found was rough and cynical company. It toughened him: he was determined to be a survivor, and he was. In fact he began to rise through the ranks until at a remarkably young age he found himself a ship?s captain. But the change in him threatened his soul, for the ship he captained was a slave ship: his cargo was human beings ? bodies and souls. His mother?s insistent habit of writing him letters annoyed him, as she never made peace with his slaving ? but deep inside her letters troubled his mind and would not give him rest. Then came the day of reckoning: a great storm wrecked his ship. The lone survivor, he felt he was spared to live a different way of life. He was called to take on the slavers and set free the slaves, a Moses for his times. But how could one man take on the slave trade with all its power and resources and even the support of His Majesty?s navy? He would have to become a pirate: the Freedom Pirate. This is the story of a man on a mission: the courage, the unexpected friends, and the change in his own inner person that it required. A story of the move from cynicism to prayer, from shame to joy, from expedience to love. NOTE: A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book will go to support organizations working to end modern-day slavery or to heal its effects.