From Captives to Consuls: Three Sailors in Barbary and Their Self-Making Across the Early American Republic, 1770-1840

by Brett Goodin

How three white, non-elite American sailors turned their experiences of captivity into diverse career opportunities--and influenced America's physical, commercial, ideological, and diplomatic development.

Winner of the John Lyman Book Award by the North American Society for Oceanic History

From 1784 to 1815, hundreds of American sailors were held as "white slaves" in the North African Barbary States. In From Captives to Consuls,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421438976
• ISBN13: 9781421438979
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher