Lydia Bailey By Kenneth Roberts 1960

Kenneth Roberts wrote novels that described America in the late 18th century period. Lydia Bailey is a memorable love story. Albion Hamblin, a young lawyer, has fled Boston where other men of his political sympathies are being jailed under the Alien and Sedition Act for criticizing the government. He arrives in Haiti- a country rocked by revolution- and he meets an American governess Lydia Bailey. They marry and fortune takes them to the Mediterranean where they are captured by Barbary pirates, and where they witness the attack of US Marines on the shores of Tripoli.