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Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters

White Slavery in the Mediterranean, The Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500-1800

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Authors:
  1. R. Davis
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Part of the book series: Early Modern History: Society and Culture (EMH)

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Keywords

  • Africa
  • African
  • America
  • English
  • Europe
  • Italy
  • knowledge
  • mediterranean
  • slavery
  • slaves
  • trade

About this book

This is a study that digs deeply into this 'other' slavery, the bondage of Europeans by North-African Muslims that flourished during the same centuries as the heyday of the trans-Atlantic trade from sub-Saharan Africa to the Americas. Here are explored the actual extent of Barbary Coast slavery, the dynamic relationship between master and slave, and the effects of this slaving on Italy, one of the slave takers' primary targets and victims.

Reviews

'Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters is about a subject of immense importance, which has been strangely neglected...It is very well researched, and... at a time of unprecedented interest in racial slavery in America, it is interesting to read a crucial and informative preview to that subject.' - David Brion Davis, Yale University

About the author

ROBERT C. DAVIS is a Professor of Italian Social History at the Ohio State University. He has previously researched and written on gender in Renaissance Italian cities, on the shipbuilders of the Venetian state arsenal, on various forms of sport in Renaissance Venice, and on past and present-day tourism in Venice.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters

  • Book Subtitle: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, The Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500-1800

  • Authors: R. Davis

  • Series Title: Early Modern History: Society and Culture

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2003

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-71966-4Published: 16 September 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-4551-8Published: 16 September 2003

  • Series ISSN: 2947-9061

  • Series E-ISSN: 2947-907X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXX, 246

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