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The white slave trade and markets in the mediterranean declined and eventually disappeared after the european occupations. Intraamerican slave trade understanding the database. Slaves in barbary could be black, brown or white, catholic, protestant, orthodox, jewish or muslim. This is a great list for selfeducation on the slave experience. Includes pictures includes contemporary accounts of the slave trade includes.

The african slave trade by basil davidson goodreads. Databases researching slavery and the slave trade libguides. The extraordinary story of thomas pellow and islams one million white slaves. In what was a documented and organized way the author broke down the slave trade, in all its horrors, to demonstrate the impact on the enslaved and the participants in the trade. While the barbary slave trade is typically portrayed as muslim corsairs capturing white christian victims, this is far too simplistic. Hugh thomass achievement is not only to present a compelling history of the time but to answer as well such controversial questions as who the traders were, the extent of the profits, and why so many african rulers and peoples willingly collaborated. Read this book and over 1 million others with a kindle unlimited membership. The slaves were then brought to the west indies or to the colonies of north or south america, where they were traded for agricultural staples for the return voyage back to england. White slavery in the mediterranean, the barbary coast, and italy, 15001800 early modern history. It is relatively useless as a focused resource for finding books e. List of books and articles about slave trade online. The netherlands and the atlantic slave trade, 1621. Sumner focuses on many specific instances of europeans and americans captured and sold at moslem slave markets.

The slave trade is alive with villains and heroes and illuminated by eyewitness accounts. Slavery and the british transatlantic slave trade the national. The forgotten true story of the white slaves of barbary. The intercolonial slave trade of british america, 16191807, demonstrates that hundreds of thousands of people. Forgotten in the current narrative is the story of the barbary slave trade, where up to 1. First published in 1853 by charles sumner, white slavery in the barbary states outlines the history of the centuries in which moslems enslaved europeans and later, americans. The slave trade was the business of acquiring, transporting and selling human beings, i. The history and legacy of the system that brought slaves to.