White Slaves, African Masters: An Anthology of American Barbary Captivity Narratives

A remarkable collection of hard-to-find primary source accounts of nineteenth-century American captivity narratives

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 t...