Piracy, Slavery, and Redemption: Barbary Captivity Narratives from Early Modern EnglandDaniel J. Vitkus These narratives recount the harrowing experiences of Englishmen abducted by the Barbary pirates of North Africa. After being sold into slavery, the narrators succeeded in returning to their homeland where their stories were printed. Never before available in a modern, annotated edition, these tales describe combat at sea, extraordinary escapes, and religious conversion, but they also illustrate the power, prosperity, and piety of Muslims in the early modern Mediterranean. Each narrative is preceded by a brief introduction, and Nabil Matar's genera introduction provides important new information about the historical context of captivity and slavery in North Africa. |
Contents
England and Mediterranean Captivity 15771704 | 1 |
John Fox The Worthy Enterprise of John Fox in Delivering 266 Christians Out of the Captivity of the Turks in Richard Hakluyt Principal Navigations | 55 |
Happened to Richard Hasleton in His Ten Years Travails in Many Foreign Countries 1595 | 71 |
John Rawlins The Famous and Wonderful Recovery of a Ship of Bristol Called the Exchange from the Turkish Pirates of Argier 1622 | 96 |
News from Sally of a Strange Delivery of Four English Captives from the Slavery of the Turks 1642 | 121 |
William Okeley Ebenezer or A Small Monument of Great Mercy Appearing in the Miraculous Deliverance of William Okeley 1675 | 124 |
Thomas Phelps A True Account of the Captivity of Thomas Phelps 1683 | 193 |
Joseph Pitts A True and Faithful Account of the Religion and Manners of the Mohammetans with an Account of the Authors Being Taken Captive 17... | 218 |
Robert Adams to Captain Robert Adams 1625 | 349 |
Thomas Sweet and Richard Robinson 1647 | 350 |
Letter and Depositions Describing Turkish Corsair Raids on the West Country Sent by Thomas Ceely to the Privy Council 1625 | 354 |
Deposition of William Knight | 355 |
Deposition of William Draper | 357 |
Petition Sent by English Captives in Morocco to King Charles I 1632 | 359 |
Laudian Rite for Returned Renegades 1637 | 361 |
Parliamentary Ordinance for Collections to Be Made for the Relief of Captives in Algiers Issued April 25 1643 | 367 |
Two Ballads | 341 |
The Lamentable Cries of at Least 1500 Christians Now Prisoners in Argiers Under the Turks | 344 |
Letter and Depositions Describing Turkish corsair Raids on the West Country Sent by Thomas Ceely to Privy Council 1625 | 347 |
Letter from Philip Lloyd the English Factor in Tunis to King Charles II 1680 | 369 |
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