[Public Domain Review] Slavery in North Africa – the Famous Story of Captain James Riley

Mon Oct 3 20:45:19 UTC 2011

When Captain James Riley published in 1817 the account of his and his
crew's capture and enslavement at the hands of a group of North
African tribesmen it became an immediate hit, readers being enthralled
by this stark reversal of the usual master-slave narrative they were
all so used to. Robert C. Davis, author of Christian Slaves, Muslim
Masters, looks at the story in the context of other similar tales of
Europeans being taken as slaves on the North African coast.

http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/10/03/slavery-in-north-africa-%E2%80%93-the-famous-story-of-captain-james-riley/