Includes bibliographical references and index Drawn from unpublished letters written by slaves, and by the padres and ambassadors sent to free them, White God reveals a disturbing and forgotten history, told with all the pace and verve of one of our finest historians Thousands of Europeans had been snatched and taken to the great slave markets of Morocco. Their captors - fanatical Islamic slave traders - had declared war on Christendom. In 1716, Cornish cabin boy Thomas Pellow and fifty-two comrades were captured by Barbary corsairs. Xiv, 316 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 20 cm
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