White gold : the extraordinary story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's one million European slaves
Milton, Giles2005
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In the summer of 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow and 52 of his comrades were captured at sea by the Barbary corsairs. Thousands of Europeans had been snatched from their homes and taken in chains to the great slave markets of Algiers, Tunis and Salé in Morocco to be sold to the highest bidder.
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London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2005.
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xiv, 316 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 20 cm.
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Originally published: 2004.Includes bibliographical references and index.
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9780340794708 (pbk)
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306.3620961306.36 MIL
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English
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660014