num_pages: 336
description: 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 Drawn from the unpublished letters and manuscripts of Pellow and survivors like him, White Gold is a fascinating glimpse at a time long forgotten by history.
language: English
title: White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islam's One Million White Slaves
titlecomplete: White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islam's One Million White Slaves
characters: Thomas Pellow
genres: Islam, Historical, Morocco, History, Biography, 18th Century, European History, Northern Africa, Africa, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1395
places: Morocco
publisher: Picador