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White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islam's One Million White Slaves
White Gold The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islam's One Million White Slaves
Author: Giles Milton
In the summer of 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow and his shipmates were captured at sea by the Barbary corsairs. Their captors--Ali Hakem and his network of Islamic slave traders--had declared war on the whole of Christendom. Pellow and his shipmates were bought by the tyrannical sultan of Morocco. Drawn from the unpublished letter...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780312425296
ISBN-10: 0312425295
Publication Date: 6/13/2006
Pages: 336
Edition: Reprint
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Publisher: Picador
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Remarkable true story of white European slaves in the eighteenth century Algiers, Tusis, and Morocco told in inimitable style by one of our finest popular historians. A Cornish cabin boy and 51 of his comrades were captured at sea. He became a slave for 23 years before escaping.
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