White Slaves, African Masters: An Anthology of American Barbary Captivity Narratives (Baepler Paul)(Paperback)

White Slaves, African Masters: An Anthology of American Barbary Captivity Narratives (Baepler Paul)(Paperback)

White Slaves, African Masters: An Anthology of American Barbary Captivity Narratives (Baepler Paul)(Paperback)

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Some of the most popular stories in nineteenth-century America were sensational tales of whites captured and enslaved in North Africa. White Slaves, African Masters for the first time gathers together a selection of these Barbary captivity narratives, which significantly influenced early American attitudes toward race, slavery, and nationalism.

Though Barbary privateers began to seize North American colonists as early as 1625, Barbary captivity narratives did not begin to flourish until after the American Revolution. During these years, stories of Barbary captivity forced the U.S. government to pay humiliating tributes to African rulers, stimulated the drive to create the U.S. Navy, and brought on America's first post-revolutionary war. These tales also were used both to justify and to vilify slavery.

The accounts collected here range from the 1798 tale of John Foss,

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