Piracy, Slavery, and Redemption

by Vitkus, Daniel J.

• ISBN13: 9780231119054
• ISBN10: 0231119054
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

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 preceded by a brief introduction, and Nabil Matar's genera introduction provides important new information about the historical context of captivity and slavery in North Africa.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Note on Editorial Method	xv
Introduction: England and Mediterranean Captivity, 1577--1704	1	(54)
Nabil Matar
NARRATIVES
``The Worthy Enterprise of John Fox, in Delivering 266 Christians Out of the Captivity of the Turks,'' in Richard Hakluyt, Principal Navigations (1589)	55	(16)
John Fox
Strange and Wonderful Things Happened to Richard Hasleton...in His Ten Years' Travails in Many Foreign Countries (1595)	71	(25)
Richard Hasleton
The Famous and Wonderful Recovery of a Ship of Bristol, Called the Exchange, from the Turkish Pirates of Argier (1622)	96	(25)
John Rawlins
News from Sally of a Strange Delivery of Four English Captives from the Slavery of the Turks (1642)	121	(3)
A Small Monument of Great Mercy, Appearing in the Miraculous Deliverance of William Okeley (1675)	124	(69)
William Okeley
Ebenezer
A True Account of the Captivity of Thomas Phelps (1685)	193	(25)
Thomas Phelps
A True and Faithful Account of the Religion and Manners of the Mohammetans, with an Account of the Author's Being Taken Captive (1704)	218	(153)
Joseph Pitts
APPENDIXES
Appendix I. Two Ballads	341	(6)
The Algerian Slave's Releasement; or, The Unchangeable Boatswain	341	(3)
The Lamentable Cries of at Least 1,500 Christians (Now Prisoners in Algiers Under the Turks)	344	(3)
Appendix 2. Letters from Captives to Their Families in England	347	(7)
Samuel Harres to His Father (1610)	347	(2)
Robert Adams to Captain Robert Adams (1625)	349	(1)
Thomas Sweet and Richard Robinson (1647)	350	(4)
Appendix 3. Letter and Depositions Describing ``Turkish'' Corsair Raids on the West Country Sent by Thomas Ceely to the Privy Council (1625)	354	(5)
Letter to the Privy Council	354	(1)
Deposition of William Knight	355	(2)
Deposition of William Draper	357	(1)
Deposition of William Court	357	(2)
Appendix 4. Petition Sent by English Captives in Morocco to King Charles I (1632)	359	(2)
Appendix 5. Laudian Rite for Returned Renegades (1637)	361	(6)
Appendix 6. Parliamentary Ordinance for Collections to Be Made for the Relief of Captives in Algiers (Issued April 25, 1643)	367	(2)
Appendix 7. Letter from Philip Lloyd, the English Factor in Tunis, to King Charles II (1680)	369	(2)
Bibliography of English Captivity Narratives from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries	371