Title: L'émissaire barbaresque au Nouveau monde
Description: On Saturday, November 30, 1805, Sheikh Slimane Mellamelli accompanied by a Tunisian delegation would stay in the U.S. for six months, as an emissary of the Tunisian monarch Hammouda Pasha. He arrived at this date the ship "USS Congress" at the port of Hampton Roads in the eastern United States and is preparing to meet with President Thomas Jefferson in an attempt to overcome a delicate Tunisian-American issue, namely the seized by the U.S. Navy off the port of Tripoli Tunisian vessels under a U.S. blockade of Libyan territory while the Regency of Tunis was nominally at peace with the United States of America. With Barbary emissary to the New World Hatem el Karoui offers us an interesting insight into a little-known episode of history. (Translation of back cover.)
Subjects: Fiction
People: Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)