She was saved by a “fake marriage” to a man named James Crisp who protected her from the Sultan Company shortly after she arrived. Her capturers further lead her to Morocco where she was placed in the Sultan Company. Her roots being at sea lead her to set sail aboard her own ship which was further taken over. With this being an unhealthy environment for her entire family, they moved when she about nineteen years old, and Elizabeth proceeded to leave her family and travel to England. With a hectic childhood mostly spent at sea or on nearby docks, she was exposed to much diversity and sickness. Starting with Marsh’s Early life, born in the later year of 1734 in England by a British shipwright father and her Jamaican mother, she became widely exposed to the Royal Navy and the British State in Portsmouth. The excerpt in the title: “the ordeal” plainly states the purpose of the book, which is to convey the occurrences in Marsh’s life and how they are widely unknown, but vastly influential on sociality in this day and age.
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