Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast and Italy, 1500-1800

Robert C. Davis

Palgrave Macmillan, Dec 5, 2003 - History - 246 pages

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--perhaps for the first time--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.

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Review: Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast and Italy, 1500-1800 (Early Modern History: Society and Culture)

User Review  - Sean Mccarrey - Goodreads

I thought this book was quite intriguing. My only major complaint was that the author could have put five pages max somewhere in the book that highlighted the history of the broader region in a way ...

Review: Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast and Italy, 1500-1800 (Early Modern History: Society and Culture)

User Review  - Brigette - Goodreads

Eye-opening - this book has made me completely rethink the way I view race and religion in historical contexts. As both a student and a teacher I have always observed the subject of slavery taught and ...

About the author

Robert C. Davis is in the Department of History, Ohio State University, Columbus.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast and Italy, 1500-1800; Early Modern History; Early modern history : Society and culture
• Author: Robert C. Davis
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003
• ISBN: 0333719662, 9780333719664
• Length: 246 pages
• Subjects: History / Europe / Italy; Religion / History