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Piracy, Slavery, and Redemption: Barbary Captivity Narratives from Early Modern England

Piracy, Slavery, and Redemption: Barbary Captivity Narratives from Early Modern England

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Literary CriticismGeneral Middle Eastern HistoryGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0231119054
ISBN13: 9780231119054
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: Oct 17 2001
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.04 Width: 5.96 Depth: 8.98
Language: English
These narratives recount the harrowing experiences of Englishmen abducted by the Barbary pirates of North Africa. After being sold into slavery, the narrators succeeded in returning to their homeland where their stories were printed. Never before available in a modern, annotated edition, these tales describe combat at sea, extraordinary escapes, and religious conversion, but they also illustrate the power, prosperity, and piety of Muslims in the early modern Mediterranean. Each narrative is preceded by a brief introduction, and Nabil Matar's genera introduction provides important new information about the historical context of captivity and slavery in North Africa.

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