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British slaves and Barbary corsairs, 1580-1750

Here is a comprehensive study of the thousands of Britons captured and enslaved in North Africa in the early modern period, charting the course of victims' lives from capture to liberation, death, or, escape. The study places the British story within the context of Mediterranean slavery, which...

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Main Author: Capp, B. S.,
Other Authors: Oxford Scholarship Online.
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (198 pages).
Edition: First edition.
Series: Oxford scholarship online.
Subjects:
Slavery -- Africa, North -- History -- 16th century.
Slavery -- Africa, North -- History -- 17th century.
Slavery -- Africa, North -- History -- 18th century.
Enslaved Christians -- Africa, North -- History -- 16th century.
Enslaved Christians -- Africa, North -- History -- 17th century.
Enslaved Christians -- Africa, North -- History -- 18th century.
Pirates -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- 16th century.
Pirates -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- 17th century.
Pirates -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- 18th century.
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Africa, North.
Africa, North -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain.

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