Captain Blood
byRafael Sabatini
CompletedAdventure,HistoricalPublic domain
Public-domain text, with thanks to Standard Ebooks and other free-text projects.
Peter Blood, with experience as a soldier and sailor, is practicing medicine in Bridgewater, England, when he inadvertently gets caught up in a rebellion being waged by the Duke of Monmouth. After being convicted of treason, Blood and some of the rebels are sentenced to slavery in the Caribbean. The year is 1688.