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- [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Description
xxx, 246 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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    "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.
    Other title(s)
    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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