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Author : Harry Collingwood
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 373402806X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Pirate Slaver written by Harry Collingwood and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Pirate Slaver by Harry Collingwood
Author : Barry Clifford
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426202628
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Real Pirates written by Barry Clifford and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the ship Whidah, including who sailed it, where it sailed, and why it sailed, and what happened to it.
Author : Harry Collingwood
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465537406
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)
Download or read book The Pirate Slaver: A Story of the West African Coast written by Harry Collingwood and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alex Wheatle
Publisher : Andersen Press Limited
ISBN 13 : 1787612252
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (876 download)
Download or read book Kemosha of the Caribbean written by Alex Wheatle and published by Andersen Press Limited. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Writing 'A vivid and powerful story ... Another tour de force by Alex Wheatle, a truly gifted storyteller' David Olusoga Kemosha and her brother have lived their whole lives in slavery. Sold away to work in lawless Port Royal, Kemosha takes her chance to escape brutal treatment. With fortune on her side, Kemosha befriends Ravenhide, a man with a mysterious past who teaches her the art of swordfighting, and introduces her to the beautiful runaway Isabella. Yet Kemosha's greatest test yet is upon the deck of the Satisfaction: the notorious Captain Morgan’s ship. His next adventure on the high seas could be the making of Kemosha – and her one chance to earn enough pieces of eight to buy the freedom of her brother...
Author : Kevin P. McDonald
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520958780
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Pirates, Merchants, Settlers, and Slaves written by Kevin P. McDonald and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-03-13 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, more than a thousand pirates poured from the Atlantic into the Indian Ocean. There, according to Kevin P. McDonald, they helped launch an informal trade network that spanned the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds, connecting the North American colonies with the rich markets of the East Indies. Rather than conducting their commerce through chartered companies based in London or Lisbon, colonial merchants in New York entered into an alliance with Euro-American pirates based in Madagascar. Pirates, Merchants, Settlers, and Slaves explores the resulting global trade network located on the peripheries of world empires and shows the illicit ways American colonists met the consumer demand for slaves and East India goods. The book reveals that pirates played a significant yet misunderstood role in this period and that seafaring slaves were both commodities and essential components in the Indo-Atlantic maritime networks. Enlivened by stories of Indo-Atlantic sailors and cargoes that included textiles, spices, jewels and precious metals, chinaware, alcohol, and drugs, this book links previously isolated themes of piracy, colonialism, slavery, transoceanic networks, and cross-cultural interactions and extends the boundaries of traditional Atlantic, national, world, and colonial histories.
Author : Virgil Henry Storr
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820470757
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Enterprising Slaves & Master Pirates written by Virgil Henry Storr and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enterprising Slaves & Master Pirates is an interdisciplinary account of economic life in the Bahamas. The Bahamas' economic story is an interesting tale, full of vibrant color - a story of short-lived booms followed by protracted busts, where discussions of economic success force us to mention fanciful figures such as the pirates Blackbeard and Calico Jack, and where accounts of economic woe, such as the collapse of the cotton market, are punctuated by descriptions of the clamor of Sunday markets or the unique practice of self-hire. Since the almost simultaneous settling of the Bahamas by pirates and Puritan farmers in the 17th century, two ideal typical entrepreneurs have dominated the region's economic life: the enterprising slave (encouraging Bahamian businessmen to work hard, to be creative and to be productive), and the master pirate, (demonstrating how success is more easily attained through cunning and deception). In addition to Caribbean Studies scholars, this book will appeal to students of culture interested in economic development, and economists interested in how culture impacts development efforts.
Author : Marcus Rediker
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789601967
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)
Download or read book Villains of All Nations written by Marcus Rediker and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pirates have long been stock figures in popular culture, from Treasure Island to the more recent antics of Jack Sparrow. Villains of all Nations unearths the thrilling historical truth behind such fictional characters and rediscovers their radical democratic challenge to the established powers of the day.
Author : Charles Nick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780531218006
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Sir Francis Drake written by Charles Nick and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the life and voyages of Sir Francis Drake in the sixteenth century.
Author : Mario Klarer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231555121
Total Pages : 611 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Barbary Captives written by Mario Klarer and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-11 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early modern period, hundreds of thousands of Europeans, both male and female, were abducted by pirates, sold on the slave market, and enslaved in North Africa. Between the sixteenth and the early nineteenth centuries, pirates from Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, and Morocco not only attacked sailors and merchants in the Mediterranean but also roved as far as Iceland. A substantial number of the European captives who later returned home from the Barbary Coast, as maritime North Africa was then called, wrote and published accounts of their experiences. These popular narratives greatly influenced the development of the modern novel and autobiography, and they also shaped European perceptions of slavery as well as of the Muslim world. Barbary Captives brings together a selection of early modern slave narratives in English translation for the first time. It features accounts written by men and women across three centuries and in nine different languages that recount the experience of capture and servitude in North Africa. These texts tell the stories of Christian pirates, Christian rowers on Muslim galleys, house slaves in the palaces of rulers, domestic servants, agricultural slaves, renegades, and social climbers in captivity. They also depict liberation through ransom, escape, or religious conversion. This book sheds new light on the social history of Mediterranean slavery and piracy, early modern concepts of unfree labor, and the evolution of the Barbary captivity narrative as a literary and historical genre.
Author : Bjarne Reuter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781842703700
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (37 download)
Download or read book The Ring of the Slave Prince written by Bjarne Reuter and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1639, and the winds of a Caribbean storm howl with the promise of sunken treasure. Treasure is the means by which fourteen-year-old Tom O'Connor hopes to deliver his family from the drudgery of working at a run-down inn on the island of Nevis. But on this particular night he finds only two ragged castaways drifting near death - a maudlin Spaniard who calls himself Ramon the Pious and a slender black youth about Tom's age. Ramon claims the slave boy is a prince, worth his weight in gold if returned to his chieftain father across the ocean, and he shows Tom a ring to prove it. When Ramon and the slave prince disappear, the course of Tom's destiny is set as he pursues his elusive dream of wealth from skiff to galleon, plantation to pirate ship, from high-spirited escapades to hairbreadth escapes - and, sometimes, to heartbreak..
Author : Alex Wheatle
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617758736
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)
Download or read book Cane Warriors written by Alex Wheatle and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moa, a fourteen-year-old slave, gets caught up in the most significant slave rebellion in Jamaican history, paying homage to freedom fighters all over the world. Winner of a 2021 Young Quills Award for Best Historical Fiction “Wheatle brings the struggle of slavery in the Jamaican sugar cane fields to life . . . A refreshing and heartbreaking story that depicts both a real-life uprising against oppression and the innate desire to be free. Highly recommended.” —School Library Journal, Starred Review NOBODY FREE TILL EVERYBODY FREE. Moa is fourteen. The only life he has ever known is toiling on the Frontier sugarcane plantation for endless hot days, fearing the vicious whips of the overseers. Then one night he learns of an uprising, led by the charismatic Tacky. Moa is to be a cane warrior, and fight for the freedom of all the enslaved people in the nearby plantations. But before they can escape, Moa and his friend Keverton must face their first great task: to kill their overseer, Misser Donaldson. Time is ticking as the day of the uprising approaches . . . Irresistible, gripping, and unforgettable, Cane Warriors follows the true story of Tacky’s War in Jamaica, 1760.
Author : Ólafur Egilsson
Publisher : Catholic University of America Press + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0813228700
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)
Download or read book The Travels of Reverend Ólafur Egilsson written by Ólafur Egilsson and published by Catholic University of America Press + ORM . This book was released on 2018-03-11 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A seventeenth-century minister tells his story of abduction by pirates, and a solo journey from Algiers to Copenhagen, in this remarkable historical text. In summer 1627, Barbary corsairs raided Iceland, killing dozens and abducting almost four hundred people to sell into slavery in Algiers. Among those taken was Lutheran minister Olafur Egilsson. Reverend Olafur—born in the same year as William Shakespeare and Galileo Galilei—wrote The Travels to chronicle his experiences both as a captive and as a traveler across Europe as he journeyed alone from Algiers to Copenhagen in an attempt to raise funds to ransom the Icelandic captives that remained behind. He was a keen observer, and the narrative is filled with a wealth of detail―social, political, economic, religious―about both the Maghreb and Europe. It is also a moving story on the human level: We witness a man enduring great personal tragedy and struggling to reconcile such calamity with his understanding of God. The Travels is the first-ever English translation of the Icelandic text. Until now, the corsair raid on Iceland has remained largely unknown in the English-speaking world. To give a clearer sense of the extraordinary events connected with that raid, this edition of The Travels includes not only Reverend Olafur’s first-person narrative but also a collection of contemporary letters describing both the events of the raid itself and the conditions under which the enslaved Icelanders lived. Also included are appendices containing background information on the cities of Algiers and Salé in the seventeenth century, on Iceland in the seventeenth century, on the manuscripts accessed for the translation, and on the book’s early modern European context.
Author : Ian Urbina
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0451492951
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)
Download or read book The Outlaw Ocean written by Ian Urbina and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A riveting, adrenaline-fueled tour of a vast, lawless, and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas. There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense regions of treacherous water play host to rampant criminality and exploitation. Traffickers and smugglers, pirates and mercenaries, wreck thieves and repo men, vigilante conservationists and elusive poachers, seabound abortion providers, clandestine oil-dumpers, shackled slaves and cast-adrift stowaways—drawing on five years of perilous and intrepid reporting, often hundreds of miles from shore, Ian Urbina introduces us to the inhabitants of this hidden world. Through their stories of astonishing courage and brutality, survival and tragedy, he uncovers a globe-spanning network of crime and exploitation that emanates from the fishing, oil, and shipping industries, and on which the world's economies rely. Both a gripping adventure story and a stunning exposé, this unique work of reportage brings fully into view for the first time the disturbing reality of a floating world that connects us all, a place where anyone can do anything because no one is watching.
Author : Marcus Rediker
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780670018239
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (182 download)
Download or read book The Slave Ship written by Marcus Rediker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on three decades of research to chart the history of slave ships, their crews, and their enslaved passengers, documenting such stories as those of a young kidnapped African whose slavery is witnessed firsthand by a horrified priest from a neighboring tribe responsible for the slave's capture. 30,000 first printing.
Author : Des Ekin
Publisher : The O'Brien Press
ISBN 13 : 1847174310
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (471 download)
Download or read book The Stolen Village written by Des Ekin and published by The O'Brien Press. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 1631 pirates from Algiers and armed troops of the Turkish Ottoman Empire, led by the notorious pirate captain Morat Rais, stormed ashore at the little harbour village of Baltimore in West Cork. They captured almost all the villagers and bore them away to a life of slavery in North Africa. The prisoners were destined for a variety of fates -- some would live out their days chained to the oars as galley slaves, while others would spend long years in the scented seclusion of the harem or within the walls of the Sultan's palace. The old city of Algiers, with its narrow streets, intense heat and lively trade, was a melting pot where the villagers would join slaves and freemen of many nationalities. Only two of them ever saw Ireland again. The Sack of Baltimore was the most devastating invasion ever mounted by Islamist forces on Ireland or England. Des Ekin's exhaustive research illuminates the political intrigues that ensured the captives were left to their fate, and provides a vivid insight into the kind of life that would have awaited the slaves amid the souks and seraglios of old Algiers. The Stolen Village is a fascinating tale of international piracy and culture clash nearly 400 years ago and is the first book to cover this relatively unknown and under-researched incident in Irish history. Shortlisted for the Argosy Irish Nonfiction Book of the Year Award
Author : Caroline Lawrence
Publisher : Orion Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 1444003534
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (44 download)
Download or read book The Pirates of Pompeii written by Caroline Lawrence and published by Orion Children's Books. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is AD 79 and Mount Vesuvius has erupted, destroying Pompeii. Among the thousands of people huddled in refugee camps along the bay of Naples are Flavia Gemina and her friends, Jonathan the Jewish boy, Nubia the African slave-girl, and Lupus the mute beggar boy. When the friends discover that children are being kidnapped from the camps, they start to investigate and soon solve the mystery of the pirates of Pompeii. A terrifically exciting and dramatic story packed with superb historical detail.
Author : Giles Milton
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 146680727X
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book White Gold written by Giles Milton and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2006-06-13 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giles Milton's White Gold tells the true story of white European slaves in eighteenth century Algiers, Tunis, and Morocco. "An elegantly discursive retelling . . . customarily elegant prose." --Simon Winchester, The Boston Globe In the summer of 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow and fifty-one of his comrades were captured at sea by Barbary corsairs. Their captors--Ali Hakem and his network of Islamic slave traders--had declared war on the whole of Christendom. Pellow and his shipmates were bought by the tyrannical sultan of Morocco. Drawn from the unpublished letters and manuscripts of Pellow and survivors like him, Giles Milton's White Gold is a fascinating glimpse at a time long forgotten by history.
