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American Slaves and African Masters
Christine E. Sears
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Description for American Slaves and African Masters
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJH; HBJK; HBL; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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 uses a comparative approach, placing African enslavement of Americans and Europeans in the context of Mediterranean and Ottoman slaveries, while individually investigating the system of slavery in Algiers and Western Sahara. This work illuminates the commonalities and peculiarities of these slaveries, while contributing to ... Read more
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 uses a comparative approach, placing African enslavement of Americans and Europeans in the context of Mediterranean and Ottoman slaveries, while individually investigating the system of slavery in Algiers and Western Sahara. This work illuminates the commonalities and peculiarities of these slaveries, while contributing to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349443536
SKU
V9781349443536
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About Christine E. Sears
Christine Sears is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Alabama-Huntsville.
Reviews for American Slaves and African Masters
"Sears presents a highly readable history of the 140 American captives of corsairs in Algiers or from shipwrecks. Recommended." - CHOICE