
Holy War and Human Bondage
Tales of Christian-Muslim Slavery in the Early-Modern Mediterranean
- 332 pages
- English
- PDF
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Holy War and Human Bondage
Tales of Christian-Muslim Slavery in the Early-Modern Mediterranean
About this book
Holy War and Human Bondage: Tales of Christian-Muslim Slavery in the Early-Modern Mediterranean tells a story unfamiliar to most modern readers—how this pervasive servitude involved, connected, and divided those on both sides of the Mediterranean. The work explores how men and women, Christians and Muslims, Jews and sub-Saharan Africans experienced their capture and bondage, while comparing what they went through with what black Africans endured in the Americas. Drawing heavily on archival sources not previously available in English, Holy War and Human Bondage teems with personal and highly felt stories of Muslims and Christians who personally fell into captivity and slavery, or who struggled to free relatives and co-religionists in bondage. In these pages, readers will discover how much race slavery and faith slavery once resembled one other and how much they overlapped in the Early-Modern mind. Each produced its share of personal suffering and social devastation—yet the whims of history have made the one virtually synonymous with human bondage while confining the other to almost complete oblivion.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 From the Journal of John Foss, American
- Chapter 2 Race Slavery and Faith Slavery
- Chapter 3 Rue, Britannia
- Chapter 4 Slaves Come and Slaves Go
- Chapter 5 One Spring Night in Pratica
- Chapter 6 Fear of the Horizon
- Chapter 7 The Family La Cueva
- Chapter 8 All Against All
- Chapter 9 Sieur Chastelet des Boys, Knight and Water Carrier
- Chapter 10 Private Slaves
- Chapter 11 Slave of the Grand Duke
- Chapter 12 State Slaves
- Chapter 13 What Lady Mary Saw
- Chapter 14 Behind Latticed Windows and Damasked Halls
- Chapter 15 The Passion of Pierre Dan
- Chapter 16 The Lucky Ones
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index