British Slaves and Barbary Corsairs, 1580-1750

by Bernard S. Capp

Book Overview

British Slaves and Barbary Corsairs is the first comprehensive study of the thousands of Britons captured and enslaved in North Africa in the early modern period, an issue of intense contemporary concern but almost wholly overlooked in modern histories of Britain. The study charts the course of victims' lives from capture to eventual liberation, death in Barbary, or, for a lucky few, escape. After sketching the outlines of Barbary's government and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192857371
• ISBN13: 9780192857378
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.3"