White Slaves, African Masters: An Anthology of American Barbary Captivity Narratives

Book Overview

Some of the most popular stories in nineteenth-century America were sensational tales of whites captured and enslaved in North Africa. White Slaves, African Masters for the first time gathers together a selection of these Barbary captivity narratives, which significantly influenced early American attitudes toward race, slavery, and nationalism.

Though Barbary privateers began to seize North American colonists as early as 1625, Barbary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226034046
• ISBN13: 9780226034041
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"