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American Slaves and African Masters: Algiers and the Western Sahara, 1776-1820
C. Sears
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| #3696017 in Books | Palgrave Macmillan | 2012-09-06 | 2012-09-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.87 x.75 x5.71l,1.05 | File type: PDF | 240 pages | ||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| A Fantastic Comparison|By Customer|Hundreds of books have been written on the institution of slavery, several of them pointing to America's "Peculiar institution" as a specific example. But what makes a slave a slave? What similarities and differences are there between New World and African slave systems? Using a stunning comparative approach, Christine Sears attempts to answ|||"Sears presents a highly readable history of the 140 American captives of corsairs in Algiers or from shipwrecks. Recommended." - CHOICE|From the Author|If you enjoyed Robert C. Davis's and Linda Colley's work on Barbary
Sears puts Barbary slavery in a larger, comparative context of Ottoman and Mediterranean slave systems.Whether by falling prey to Algerian corsairs or crashing onto the desert shores of Western Sahara, a handful of Americans in the first years of the Republic found themselves enslaved in a system that differed so markedly from nineteenth century U.S. slavery that some contemporaries and modern scholars hesitate to categorize their experiences as 'slavery.' Sears use...
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