Horrors of Slavery

by Ray, William; Blum, Hester

• ISBN13: 9780813544137
• ISBN10: 0813544130
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-11-30
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

Summary

Barbary pirates in Africa targeted sailors for centuries, often taking slaves and demanding ransoms in exchange. This threat was especially acute to American sailors, whose young nation could scarcely afford such an expense, especially after the navy had been decimated during the Revolutionary War.

Author Biography

Hester Blum is an assistant professor of English at Penn State University

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
Chronology	p. xxxi
A Note on the Text	p. xxxv
Exordium	p. 3
Introductory Remarks	p. 15
Commencement of Service	p. 19
A Sketch of Biography	p. 26
Suicide Attempted	p. 31
Embarkation-Celebration of Independence-Exemplary Punishment, &c.	p. 37
A Voyage	p. 43
Exercising Ship	p. 49
Remarks on Dr. Cowdery's Journal	p. 56
A Petition	p. 70
Commodore Preble's Engagement with the Tripolitans	p. 82
Elegy	p. 97
Description of the Place	p. 109
Manners, Customs, &c. of the Tripolitans	p. 119
Public Transactions of the United States with the Regency of Tripoli; Including General Eaton's Expedition	p. 125
Sketch of General Eaton's Expedition	p. 164
Return Home	p. 181
Poetry, Published in The Albany Register, during the summer of 1807	p. 183
Explanatory Notes	p. 197
Further Reading	p. 201
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