Category: Captives

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[…]

(This post is a continuation of The Odyssey of René du Chastelet des Boys – Parts 1 through 5. If[…]

(This post is a continuation of The Odyssey of René du Chastelet des Boys – Parts 1 through 6. If[…]

This week, we return to The Odyssey of René du Chastelet des Boys—though this installment is posted a couple of[…]