White Slavery in the Barbary States

by Charles Sumner

Overview

This controversial, oft-suppressed work is a fascinating glimpse into the practice of white slavery. In White Slavery in the Barbary States captivity expert Charles Sumner takes a detailed look at the white slave markets which flourished on the Barbary Coast of North Africa, which included the Ottoman provinces of Algeria, Tunisia and Tripolitania and the independent sultanate of Morocco, between the 16th and middle of the 18th century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781365895654
Publisher:	Enhanced Media Publishing
Publication date:	04/21/2017
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
File size:	582 KB

About the Author

Charles Sumner (1811-1874) was trained as a lawyer and served as Senator for the state of Massachusetts from 1851 until 1874. He was the acknowledged leader of the abolitionist movement in his state, and was perhaps most famous for being nearly beaten to death by a fellow senator from South Carolina after a particularly fiery anti-slavery speech in 1856 in which he compared slavery to whoredom.

Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter I: The Word Slave
Chapter II: The Barbary States
Chapter III: The Enslavement of the Christians
Endnotes