Christian slaves, Muslim masters : white slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500-1800 / Robert C. Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Robert C. (Robert Charles), 1948-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Early modern history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slave trade--Africa, North--History.

Slave trade.

Slave trade--Italy--History.

Christians--Africa, North--History.

Christians.

Christians--Italy--History.

Muslims--Commerce--Africa, North--History.

Muslims.

Muslims--Commerce--Italy--History.

Muslims--Commerce.

History.

Italy.

North Africa.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxx, 246 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

White slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500-1800

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Summary:

In this book Robert C. Davis uses many new historical sources to re-examine one of the least understood forms of human bondage in modern times -- the systematic enslavement of white, Christian Europeans by the Muslims of North Africa's Barbary Coast. Far from the minor phenomenon that many have assumed it to be, white slavery in the Maghreb turns out, in Davis' account, to have had enormous consequences, ensnaring as many as a million victims from France and Italy to Spain, Holland, Great Britain, the Americas, and even Iceland in the centuries when it flourished between 1500 and 1800. Whether dealing with the methods used by slavers, the experience of slavery, or its destructive impact on the slaves themselves, Davis demonstrates the many, often surprising, similarities between this 'other' slavery and the much better known human bondage suffered at the very same time by black Africans in the Americas.

Contents:

Some Currency Conversions viii

Some Exemplary Prices xi

Part I White Slavery

1 How Many Slaves? 3

2 Slave Taking and Slave Breaking 27

Part II Barbary

3 Slave Labor 69

4 Slaves' Life 103

Part III Italy

5 The Home Front 139

6 Celebrating Slavery 175.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-239) and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0333719662

OCLC:

51171741