Adisadvantage of a confederate government is that

Money Trouble. One disadvantage of the confederate system was that the national legislature could not raise taxes to pay off the debts the country incurred in the Revolutionary War. Only the states had the ability to raise revenue

the answer is solomon northrup. he was a free-born african american, abolitionist and professional violinist that was drugged, kidnapped and sold as slave in 1841 and remained in captivity until 1853 where he regained his freedom with the of the then-governor of new york, washington hunt. he wrote and published his memoirs "twelve years a slave" in 1853, and in this text, he tells the story of his escape thru one of louisiana's swamps (the great pacoudrie swamp) in which he ended up covered in green slime from crossing the surface of the dead water.

answer; francis cecil sumner;