Mediterranean slavery -- Salvation without the state -- Manumission and absolute monarchy -- Bombarding Barbary -- Emancipation in an age of enlightenment -- Liberation and empire from the Revolution to Napoleon -- North African servitude in black and white -- The conquest of Algiers
Summary
French response to the capture and enslavement of French citizens and subjects by Muslim corsairs in the Mediterranean
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-378) and index