Category: Captives

(This post is a continuation of The Odyssey of René du Chastelet des Boys – Parts 1 through 13. If[…]

On a July morning in 1627, people on Heimaey, the largest of the Westman Islands off Iceland’s south coast, spotted[…]

The content of this week’s post comes from a book, published in the early nineteenth century, in which the author[…]

(This post is a continuation of Narrative of a Residence in Algiers – Part 1. If you haven’t done so[…]

(This post is a continuation of Narrative of a Residence in Algiers – Part 2. If you haven’t done so[…]

(This post is a continuation of Narrative of a Residence in Algiers – Part 3. If you haven’t done so[…]

If you were captured by Barbary corsairs, and you came from a Catholic country—and you weren’t rich—your best chance for[…]

This week continues the series of excerpts from Father Pierre Dan, the Trinitarian friar. This week’s post is on renegades—Christians[…]

For those Europeans unfortunate enough to be captured by Barbary corsairs and taken to North Africa to be auctioned off[…]

In the summer of 1634, Father Dan, a French Trinitarian friar, took part in a diplomatic mission to Algiers. His[…]