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001			ASIN0374289352
005			20170105102927.0
008			131213s2005 xxu eng d
020			_a0374289352 (hardcover) _c$25.00
020			_a9780374289355 (hardcover)
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050	0	4	_aHT1346
082	0	4	_a306.3620964 _bMIL 2004
100	1		_aMilton, Giles.
245	1	0	_aWhite gold : _bthe extraordinary story of thomas pellow and islam's one million white slaves / _cGiles Milton.
250			_a1st American ed.
260			_a[S.l.] : _bFarrar, Straus and Giroux, _c2004.
300			_a336 p. ; _c24 cm.
500			_aDeckle Edge.
520			_aThe true story of white European slaves in eighteenth century Algiers, Tunis, and Morocco 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--Ali Hakem and his network of Islamic slave traders--had declared war on the whole of Christendom. France, Spain, England and Italy had 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 Sal� in Morocco. Pellow and his shipmates were bought by the tyrannical sultan of Morocco, Moulay Ismail, who was constructing an imperial palace of such scale and grandeur that it would surpass every other building in the world, a palace built entirely by Christian slave labor. Resourceful, resilient, and quick-thinking, Pellow was selected by Moulay Ismail for special treatment, and was one of the fortunate few who survived to tell his tale. An extraordinary and shocking story, drawn from unpublished letters and manuscripts written by slaves and by the padres and ambassadors sent to free them, White Gold reveals a disturbing and long forgotten chapter of history.
650		0	_aGreat Britain
650		0	_aMorocco
650		0	_aPellow, Thomas, 1704-
650		0	_aRelations (Canon law)
650		0	_aSlavery
856	4	0	_3Amazon.com _uhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374289352/chopaconline-20
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