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Barbary Captives - An Anthology of Early Modern Slave Memoirs by Europeans in North Africa (Hardcover)
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Barbary Captives - An Anthology of Early Modern Slave Memoirs by Europeans in North Africa (Hardcover)
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In the early modern period, hundreds of thousands of Europeans,
both male and female, were abducted by pirates, sold on the slave
market, and enslaved in North Africa. Between the sixteenth and the
early nineteenth centuries, pirates from Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli,
and Morocco not only attacked sailors and merchants in the
Mediterranean but also roved as far as Iceland. A substantial
number of the European captives who later returned home from the
Barbary Coast, as maritime North Africa was then called, wrote and
published accounts of their experiences. These popular narratives
greatly influenced the development of the modern novel and
autobiography, and they also shaped European perceptions of slavery
as well as of the Muslim world. Barbary Captives brings together a
selection of early modern slave narratives in English translation
for the first time. It features accounts written by men and women
across three centuries and in nine different languages that recount
the experience of capture and servitude in North Africa. These
texts tell the stories of Christian pirates, Christian rowers on
Muslim galleys, house slaves in the palaces of rulers, domestic
servants, agricultural slaves, renegades, and social climbers in
captivity. They also depict liberation through ransom, escape, or
religious conversion. This book sheds new light on the social
history of Mediterranean slavery and piracy, early modern concepts
of unfree labor, and the evolution of the Barbary captivity
narrative as a literary and historical genre.
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