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Author Milton, Giles.

Title White gold : the extraordinary story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's one million European slaves / Giles Milton
Edition First American edition, 2005
Published London [England] : Hodder & Stoughton, 2004

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Description xiv, 316 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Contents 1. A new and deadly foe -- 2. Sultan of slaves -- 3. Seized at sea -- 4. Pellow's torments -- 5. Into the slave pen -- 6. Guarding the concubines -- 7. Rebels in the high atlas -- 8. Turning Turk -- 9. At the court of Moulay Ismail -- 10. Escape or death -- 11. Blood rivals -- 12. Long route home
Summary "In the summer of 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow and fifty-one of his comrades were captured at sea by the Barbary corsairs. Their captors - Captain Ali Hakem and his network of fanatical Islamic slave traders - had declared war on the whole of Christendom. France, Spain and Italy had been hit in repeated raids. England's coastal villages had also suffered a series of devastating attacks. Thousands of Europeans had been snatched from their homes and taken in chains to the great slave markets of Algiers, Tunis and Sale in Morocco. Poked, prodded and put through their paces, they were sold at auction to the highest bidder." "Pellow and his ship-mates were bought by the tyrannical sultan of Morocco, Moulay Ismail, who bragged that his white slaves enabled him to hold all of Europe to ransom. The sultan was constructing an imperial pleasure palace of such scale and grandeur that it would surpass every other building in the world, built entirely by Christian slave labour." "Thomas Pellow was resourceful, resilient and quick-thinking, and was selected by Moulay Ismail for special treatment. As a personal slave of the sultan, he would witness first-hand the barbaric splendour of the imperial Moroccan court, as well as experience daily terror. For twenty-three years, he would dream of his home, his family and freedom. He was one of the fortunate few who survived to tell his tale." "White Gold is an extraordinary and shocking story. Drawn from unpublished letters and manuscripts written by slaves, and by the padres and ambassadors sent to free them, it reveals a disturbing and forgotten chapter of history."--BOOK JACKET
Analysis Slavery - Morocco - History - 18th century
Slaves - Morocco - Biography
Slave trade - Africa, North - History - 18th century
Pirates - Europe - History - 18th century
Morocco - History - 18th century
Slave trade - Morocco - History - 18th century
Slavery - Africa, North - History - 18th century
Pellow, Thomas, b. 1704
Pirates - Africa, North - History - 18th century
Ismail, Sultan of Morocco, d. 1727
Notes Illustrations on lining papers. Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-304) and index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-304) and index
Subject Pellow, Thomas, 1704-
Ismail, Moulay
Slaves -- Africa, North.
Slaves -- Africa, North -- Biography.
British -- Africa, North -- Biography.
Europeans -- Africa, North -- History.
Slaves -- Africa, North -- History.
Christians -- Africa, North -- History.
Slavery -- Morocco -- History.
Slavery -- Africa, North -- History -- 18th century.
Slave trade -- Morocco -- History -- 18th century.
Slave trade -- Africa, North -- History -- 18th century.
Pirates -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
Pirates -- Africa, North -- History -- 18th century.
Slaves -- Morocco -- Biography.
Slavery -- Morocco -- History -- 18th century.
SUBJECT Morocco -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85087328
Africa, North -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001638
Morocco http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79069715 -- Relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007590 -- Great Britain. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79023147
Great Britain http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79023147 -- Relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007590 -- Morocco. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79069715
Morocco -- History -- 1516-1830. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85087331
Morocco -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85087328 -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012474
Genre/Form biografier
Biography.
History.
Biographies.
LC no. 2004026427
ISBN 0340794690
0340834943
Other Titles Extraordinary story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's one million European slaves