Category: Captives

This week, we continue with the narrative of Elizabeth Marsh. In last week’s post, Ms. Marsh and her companions were[…]

This week, we conclude the narrative of Elizabeth Marsh. In last week’s post, Ms. Marsh and her companions were still[…]

This week’s post contains an excerpt from a book published in London in 1693, written by an Englishman named Francis[…]

Francis Brooks had the misfortune to be taken captive and enslaved in Morocco the 1680s. Being a slave anywhere in[…]

There aren’t a lot of narratives about women captured by Barbary corsairs. This week, we’ll look at the story of[…]

This week’s post contains excerpts from yet another first-person captivity narrative, this one written in the seventeenth century. Our author[…]

(This post is a continuation of The Odyssey of René du Chastelet des Boys – Parts 1& 2. If you[…]

(This post is a continuation of The Odyssey of René du Chastelet des Boys – Parts 1 & 2. If[…]

(This post is a continuation of The Odyssey of René du Chastelet des Boys – Parts 1, 2, & 3.[…]

(This post is a continuation of The Odyssey of René du Chastelet des Boys – Parts 1 through 4. If[…]