"From Captives to Consuls: Three Sailors in Barbary" Topic
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| Tango01 | 09 Mar 2020 10:08 p.m. PST |
… and Their Self-Making Across the Early American Republic, 1770-1840 "From 1784 to 1815, hundreds of American sailors were held as "white slaves" in the North African Barbary States. In From Captives to Consuls, Brett Goodin vividly traces the lives of three of these men—Richard O'Brien, James Cathcart, and James Riley—from the Atlantic coast during the American Revolution to North Africa, from Philadelphia to the Louisiana Territories, and finally to the western frontier. This first scholarly biography of American captives in Barbary sifts through their highly curated writings to reveal how ordinary individuals in extraordinary circumstances could maneuver through and contribute to nation-building in early America, all the while advancing their own interests…"
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