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Christian slaves, Muslim masters : white slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500-1800 / Robert C. Davis.
Author
Davis, Robert C. (Robert Charles), 1948-
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Language
English
Published/Created
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Description
xxx, 246 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
HT1342 .D38 2003
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Slave trade
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Africa, North
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History
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Slave trade
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Italy
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History
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Enslaved Christians
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Africa, North
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History
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Enslaved Christians
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Italy
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History
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Muslims
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Commerce
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Africa, North
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History
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Muslims
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Commerce
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Italy
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History
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Series
Early modern history (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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Early modern history
Summary note
"In this book Robert C. Davis uses many new historical sources to re-examine one of the least understood forms of human bondage in modern times - the systematic enslavement of white, Christian Europeans by the Muslims of North Africa's Barbary Coast. Far from the minor phenomenon that many have assumed it to be, white slavery in the Maghreb turns out, in Davis' account, to have had enormous consequences, ensnaring as many as a million victims from France and Italy to Spain, Holland, Great Britain, the Americas, and even Iceland in the centuries when it flourished between 1500 and 1800. Whether dealing with the methods used by slavers, the experience of slavery, or its destructive impact on the slaves themselves, Davis demonstrates the many, often surprising, similarities between this 'other' slavery and the much better known human bondage suffered at the very same time by black Africans in the Americas."--Jacket.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 194-239) and index.
Contents
How many slaves?
Slave taking and slave breaking
Slave labor
Slaves' life
The home front
Celebrating slavery.
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White slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500-1800
ISBN
0333719662
9780333719664
9781403945518
1403945519
LCCN
2002192454
OCLC
51171741
Other standard number
99807126508
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