Holy war and human bondage : tales of Christian-Muslim slavery in the early-modern Mediterranean
Slavery in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries was not based solely on race or practiced only in the Americas. Faith slaves, both Christian and Muslim, were held in bondage by the thousands in places as diverse as Algiers, Tunis, Constantinople, Seville, Malta, and Naples. Holy War and Human Bondage tells how this pervasive servitude involved, connected, and divided those on both sides of the Mediterranean. The work explores how men and women, Christians and Muslims, Jews and sub-Saharan Africans experienced their capture and bondage, while comparing what they went through with what black Africans endured in the Americas. Drawing heavily on archival sources not previously available in English, Holy War and Human Bondage teems with personal and highly-felt stories of Muslims and Christians who personally fell into captivity, slavery or who struggled to free relatives and co-religionists in bondage. Readers will discover how much race slavery and faith slavery once resembled one another and how much they overlapped in the Early-Modern mind. The whims of history have made one virtually synonymous with human bondage, while confining the other to almost complete oblivion
Print Book, English, ©2009
Praeger/ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, Calif., ©2009
History
xi, 316 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
9780275989507, 027598950X
317697775
From the journal of John Foss, American
Race slavery and faith slavery
Rue, Britannia
Slaves come and slaves go
One spring night in Pratica
Fear of the horizon
The family La Cueva
All against all
Sieur Chastelet des Boys, knight, and water carrier
Private slaves
Slave of the Grand Duke
State slaves
What Lady Mary saw
Behind latticed windows and damasked halls
The passion of Pierre Dan
The lucky ones
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