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J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement

Written by: Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrated by: Michael Richards
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"J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" is an 1884 short story by young Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the form of a first-person testimony by a survivor of the Marie Celeste, a fictionalized version of the tale of the Mary Celeste, a ship found abandoned and adrift in the Atlantic Ocean in 1872.

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Belongs in the past - Terrible

Terrible and I’m horrified that Doyle wrote it.
I read it because of the Marie Celeste connection but I’ll save you the time.
Respectable doctor who spends his free time fighting against slavery goes on Marie Celeste.
Black Man goes on Marie Celeste and kills everyone but the doctor. The doctor is only spared because he has a special artefact from an African tribe. The black man tells the doctor that it is because he “warred against the whole white race”.
Also the black man throws in that he has spent the last twenty years of his life crossing the United States and murdering as many random white people as possible.

Such a horribly racist book and so thinly disguised. Doyle really piles it on in the last few minutes. I now know that Sherlock Holmes would have been in on the cover up after George Floyd.

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