Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery within the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500-1800 (Early Trendy Historical past: Society and Tradition)

This can be a research that digs deeply into this ‘different’ slavery, the bondage of Europeans by North-African Muslims that flourished throughout the identical centuries because the heyday of the trans-Atlantic commerce from sub-Saharan Africa to the Americas. Listed here are explored the precise extent of Barbary Coast slavery, the dynamic relationship between grasp and slave, and the consequences of this slaving on Italy, one of many slave takers’ main targets and victims.