Category: Captives

(This post is a continuation of Don Quixote – The Captive’s Tale – Parts 1 through 7. If you haven’t[…]

(This post is a continuation of Don Quixote – The Captive’s Tale – Parts 1 through 8. If you haven’t[…]

(This post is a continuation of Don Quixote – The Captive’s Tale – Parts 1 through 9. If you haven’t[…]

(This post is a continuation of Don Quixote – The Captive’s Tale – Parts 1 through 10. If you haven’t[…]

(This post is a continuation of Don Quixote – The Captive’s Tale – Parts 1 through 11. If you haven’t[…]

Ransoming captives from North Africa wasn’t a simple process. The logistics could be fiendishly complicated and difficult, and, as we[…]

Being captured by Barbary corsairs and sold into slavery like a beast of burden was a devastatingly traumatic experience. Everything[…]

Last week’s post in this blog contained an excerpt from Francis Brooks’ Barbarian Cruelty that told the unhappy story of[…]

This week, we continue with the narrative of Elizabeth Marsh, who was captured by corsairs from Salé in the summer[…]

This week, we continue with the narrative of Elizabeth Marsh, who was captured by corsairs from Salé in the summer[…]