33 Facts About Joseph Stephanini

Joseph Stephanini was an Ottoman Greek author and runaway slave.

Joseph Stephanini wrote The Personal Narrative of the Sufferings of J Stephanini pleading to the American people to raise money to free his family from the bondage of slavery.

Joseph Stephanini was severely beaten for three days and begged his captors to put him to death.

Joseph Stephanini was eventually sold in the market for seventy-eight dollars.

Joseph Stephanini was purchased by an Ottoman military commander named Mustafa Bey of Patras.

Joseph Stephanini was referred to as a Greek dog.

Joseph Stephanini was put in a dungeon for a period of twenty-eight hours without food or water.

Joseph Stephanini was repeatedly thrown into the dungeon, in one instance with dogs.

Joseph Stephanini's torture continued for roughly two and a half months.

Joseph Stephanini survived the torture but because he was unwilling to convert to Islam he was installed as a lower servant.

Joseph Stephanini was the pipe boy, in charge of the pipe and tobacco.

Joseph Stephanini was an errand boy and eventually was associated with the harem.

Joseph Stephanini was responsible for the Gulf of Patras and Patras Castle.

Joseph Stephanini was in a strong fortress at the mouth of the gulf.

One time, Joseph Stephanini was severely beaten because he misunderstood Mustafa's mistress.

Mustafa wanted to purchase cargo for the garrison and Joseph Stephanini was the only person in the household that spoke Italian.

Joseph Stephanini convinced Spalla to sneak him out of Patras Castle in the middle of the night.

Joseph Stephanini's friends advised him to travel to Gibraltar because there was a communication system between Gibraltar, Malta, and Corfu.

Joseph Stephanini boarded the brig Abeona with Captain Fairchild and traveled to New York City.

Joseph Stephanini encountered the Greek Committee and begged for help to travel back to Greece to find his family.

Joseph Stephanini continued his voyage with the Six Brothers ship to Nafplio.

Joseph Stephanini traveled back to the United States of America.

Joseph Stephanini was on the American vessel Byron with Captain Moore.

Joseph Stephanini stayed at the house of Samuel Gridley Howe's father.

Joseph Stephanini advised Stephanini to write a book about his adventure which would raise money to free his family from slavery.

Joseph Stephanini's book began to circulate throughout the United States and he gathered enough money to travel back to Greece.

Joseph Stephanini departed the United States on October 27,1829, on the ship Six Brothers with Captain Lee.

Joseph Stephanini traveled with the editor of the Statesmen newspaper Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter, Dr, Phillip H Thomas, and Major John E Lewis.

The final communication from Joseph Stephanini was received around December 26,1829.

Joseph Stephanini traveled to Messina, Italy, on the brig Danube with Captain William Beecher.

Joseph Stephanini sent a letter to the American consul John L Payson in the Kingdom of Two Sicilies explaining that he safely arrived.

Joseph Stephanini showed him a letter of recommendation from President Andrew Jackson.

Joseph Stephanini indicated his next voyage was to Corfu on the brig Industria.