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White Slaves, African Masters - An Anthology of American Barbary Captivity Narratives (Paperback, New)
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White Slaves, African Masters - An Anthology of American Barbary Captivity Narratives (Paperback, New)
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Some of the most popular stories in nineteenth-century America were
sensational tales of whites captured and enslaved in North Africa.
"White Slaves, African Masters" for the first time gathers together
a selection of these Barbary captivity narratives, which
significantly influenced early American attitudes toward race,
slavery, and nationalism.
Though Barbary privateers began to seize North American colonists
as early as 1625, Barbary captivity narratives did not begin to
flourish until after the American Revolution. During these years,
stories of Barbary captivity forced the U.S. government to pay
humiliating tributes to African rulers, stimulated the drive to
create the U.S. Navy, and brought on America's first
post-revolutionary war. These tales also were used both to justify
and to vilify slavery.
The accounts collected here range from the 1798 tale of John Foss,
who was ransomed by Thomas Jefferson's administration for tribute
totaling a sixth of the annual federal budget, to the story of Ion
Perdicaris, whose (probably staged) abduction in Tangier in 1904
prompted Theodore Roosevelt to send warships to Morocco and
inspired the 1975 film "The Wind and the Lion." Also included is
the unusual story of Robert Adams, a light-skinned African American
who was abducted by Arabs and used by them to hunt negro slaves;
captured by black villagers who presumed he was white; then was
sold back to a group of Arabs, from whom he was ransomed by a
British diplomat.
Long out of print and never before anthologized, these fascinating
tales open an entirely new chapter of early American literary
history, and shed new light on the more familiar genres of Indian
captivity narrative and American slave narrative.
"Baepler has done American literary and cultural historians a
service by collecting these long-out-of-print Barbary captivity
narratives . . . . Baepler's excellent introduction and full
bibliography of primary and secondary sources greatly enhance our
knowledge of this fascinating genre."--"Library Journal"
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