Category: Captives

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[…]

Sometimes there’s just no substitute for the original. So this week’s post (and several more to follow) consists of a[…]

(This post is a continuation of The Adventures of William Okeley: A Captive’s Tale – Part 1. If you haven’t[…]

(This post is a continuation of The Adventures of William Okeley: A Captive’s Tale – Parts 1 & 2. If[…]

(This post is a continuation of The Adventures of William Okeley: A Captive’s Tale – Parts 1, 2, & 3.[…]

(This post is a continuation of The Adventures of William Okeley: A Captive’s Tale – Parts 1, 2, 3, &[…]

(This post is a continuation of The Adventures of William Okeley: A Captive’s Tale – Parts 1, 2, 3, 4,[…]

(This post is a continuation of The Adventures of William Okeley: A Captive’s Tale – Parts 1, 2, 3, 4,[…]

Back in April of 2018, there was a three-part series of posts here in the Captives section of this blog[…]