White Women Captives in North Africa: Narratives of Enslavement, 1735-1830

A fascinating anthology of historical narratives composed from the late sixteenth to early nineteenth centuries by European women abducted by Muslim corsairs and enslaved in North Africa during the age of piracy. Many of the narratives are very rare and are by women coming from diverse social and economic backgrounds. Khalid Bekkaoui White Women Captives in North Africa_ Narratives of Enslavement_ 1735-1830 2011

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