Piracy, Slavery, and Redemption: Barbary Captivity Narratives from Early Modern England
These narratives recount the harrowing experiences of Englishmen abducted by the Barbary pirates of North Africa. After being sold into slavery, the narrators succeeded in returning to their homeland where their stories were printed. Never before available in a modern, annotated edition, these tales describe combat at sea, extraordinary escapes, and religious conversion, but they also illustrate the power, prosperity, and piety of Muslims in the early modern Mediterranean. Each narrative is...
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At last available in a modern, annotated edition, these tales describe combat at sea, extraordinary escapes, and religious conversion, but they also illustrate the power, prosperity, and piety of Muslims in the early modern Mediterranean.
List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsNote on Editorial MethodIntroduction: England and Mediterranean Captivity, 1577-17041"The Worthy Enterprise of John Fox, in Delivering 266 Christians Out of the Captivity of the Turks," in Richard Hakluyt, Principal Navigations (1589)55Strange and Wonderful Things Happened to Richard Hasleton ... in His Ten Years' Travails in Many Foreign Countries (1595)71The Famous and Wonderful Recovery of a Ship of Bristol, Called the Exchange, from the Turkish Pirates of Argier (1622)96News from Sally of a Strange Delivery of Four English Captives from the Slavery of the Turks (1642)121Ebenezer; or, A Small Monument of Great Mercy, Appearing in the Miraculous Deliverance of William Okeley (1675)124A True Account of the Captivity of Thomas Phelps (1685)193A True and Faithful Account of the Religion and Manners of the Mohammetans, with an Account of the Author's Being Taken Captive (1704)218App. 1Two Ballads341The Algerian Slave's Releasement; or, The Unchangeable Boatswain341The Lamentable Cries of at Least 1,500 Christians (Now Prisoners in Algiers Under the Turks)344App. 2Letters from Captives to Their Families in England347Samuel Harres to His Father (1610)347Robert Adams to Captain Robert Adams (1625)349Thomas Sweet and Richard Robinson (1647)350App. 3Letter and Depositions Describing "Turkish" Corsair Raids on the West Country Sent by Thomas Ceely to the Privy Council (1625)354Letter to the Privy Council354Deposition of William Knight355Deposition of William Draper357Deposition of William Court357App. 4Petition Sent by English Captives in Morocco to King Charles I (1632)359App. 5Laudian Rite for Returned Renegades (1637)361App. 6Parliamentary Ordinance for Collections to Be Made for the Relief of Captives in Algiers (Issued April 25, 1643)367App. 7Letter from Philip Lloyd, the English Factor in Tunis, to King Charles II (1680)369Bibliography of English Captivity Narratives from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries371
\ The Historian - Carolyn S. Knapp\ Piracy, slavery, captivity, and redemption were compelling subjects in the sixteenth and seventeenth century; Daniel J. Vitkus and Nabil Matar have, in this well-edited volume of early English images of the Islamic world, made them equally fascinating to twenty-first-century academic and lay readers... [This] books does a fine job of making primary source material available to, and readable by, a wide audience.\ \ \ \ \ \ Renaissance Quarterly - Donna Amelia Vinson\ [T]his collection transcends geographical and disciplinary boundaries, and researchers... will find Piracy, Slavery, and Redemption to be both a useful and timely volume.\ \ \ \ The HistorianPiracy, slavery, captivity, and redemption were compelling subjects in the sixteenth and seventeenth century; Daniel J. Vitkus and Nabil Matar have, in this well-edited volume of early English images of the Islamic world, made them equally fascinating to twenty-first-century academic and lay readers... [This] books does a fine job of making primary source material available to, and readable by, a wide audience.\ — Carolyn S. Knapp\ \ \ \ \ \ Renaissance Quarterly[T]his collection transcends geographical and disciplinary boundaries, and researchers... will find Piracy, Slavery, and Redemption to be both a useful and timely volume.\ — Donna Amelia Vinson\ \ \
