Piracy, Slavery, and Redemption
Contributors: Nabil Matar (Foreword); Daniel Vitkus (Editor)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: November 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780231119047
Subjects: African history: c 1500 to c 1900; Biography: general; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; Sociology; Literary Criticism; North Africa; General; Middle East - General; Slavery; Literary Criticism & Collections / European; Africa, North; Biography; British; Captivity narratives; Slaves
First sentence: Until the seventeenth century, the peoples of the Far East, sub-Saharan Africa, and the New World remained shadowy figures with whom Britons had little contact.