Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast and Italy, 1500-1800 (Early Modern History)

By Robert Con Davis and Robert C. Davis

Book Overview

This is a study that digs deeply into this 'other' slavery, the bondage of Europeans by North-African Muslims that flourished during the same centuries as the heyday of the trans-Atlantic trade from sub-Saharan Africa to the Americas. Here are explored the actual extent of Barbary Coast slavery, the dynamic relationship between master and slave, and the effects of this slaving on Italy, one of the slave takers' primary targets and victims.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403945519
• ISBN13: 9781403945518
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Other slaves.

Much has been written about slavery in the Americas. The injustices and misery of the Black Africans will never be forgotten. However, there is little focus on other examples of "Mans inhumanity to Man". Dr. Robert C. Davis, Professor of History at The Ohio State University, has brought another example to light. His documentation and research is vast. He tells how pirates of the Mediterranean and the Barbary Coast captured...

The Triumph Of Greed

This book illuminates an important dynamic of history. Africans were enslaving Europeans. Europeans were enslaving Africans. Africans were selling the members of competing African tribes to Europeans for enslavement. The constant in all this is greed.

A wonderful read to reflect on the history and today

Reading this wonderful book, one cannot help to reflect on the history since then when such slave trade took place, as well as what Europe is facing today. It is important to remember the history and learn the necessary lesson from it, otherwise, we have no way to prevent the history from repeating itself. I also cannot help to wonder: why such history is not told in our schools and in our media? What is the reason that this...

Little known history

Mass slavery in the popular imagination had always been associated with the capture and subsequent enslavement of Africans. With good reason. The sheer scale of the African slave trade stretched the limits of imagination. Enslaved Africans were ubiquitous from Brazil to the Carribbean to the plantations in the Southern United States. Slavery undergirded economies, dehumanized victims and victimizers alike and generated profits...

A fascinating book on a little known subject

Many people are aware of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, but not many are aware of the trans-Mediterranean slave trade, in which Christians and Muslims took each other as slaves. By far, the most successful of these slavers were the Barbary corsairs, who probably succeeded in capturing at least one million Christian Europeans from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth. In this fascinating book, author and historian Robert...