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White Gold - The Forgotten Story of North Africa's European Slaves (Hardcover)
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White Gold - The Forgotten Story of North Africa's European Slaves (Hardcover)
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In the summer of 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow and
52 of his comrades were captured at sea by the Barbary corsairs.
Their captors - fanatical Islamic slave traders - had declared war
on the whole of Christendom. Thousands of Europeans had been
snatched from their homes and taken in chains to the great slave
markets of Algiers, Tunis and Sale in Morocco to be sold to the
highest bidder.;Pellow was bought by the tyrannical sultan of
Morocco, who bragged that his white slaves enabled him to hold all
of Europe to ransom. The sultan was constructing an imperial
pleasure palace of enormous scale and grandeur, built entirely by
Christian slave labour. Thomas Pellow was selected to be a personal
slave of the sultan and he would witness first-hand the barbaric
splendour of the imperial Moroccan court, as well as experience of
daily terror. For 23 years, he would dream of his home, his family
and freedom. He was one of the fortunate few who survived to tell
his told.;Drawn from unpublished letters and manuscripts written by
slaves and by the padres and ambassadors sent to free them, this
shocking and extraordinary story reveals a disturbing and forgotten
chapter of our history.
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