Category: Captives

(This post is a continuation of Guttormur Hallsson: a Captive’s Tale – Parts 1 & 2. If you haven’t done[…]

Once upon a time—back in the 1570s—there was Augustinian friar named Antonio, a Portuguese man living in Spain, who had[…]

(This post is a continuation of The Travails of Friar Antonio – Part 1. If you haven’t done so already,[…]

(This post is a continuation of The Travails of Friar Antonio – Parts 1 and 2. If you haven’t done[…]

In the early 1600s, a young French sailor named Nicolaus, from Havre de Grace (modern-day Le Havre, located on the[…]

On Wednesday, June 20,1 1627, Barbary corsairs raided the village of Grindavík on Iceland’s southwest coast. These corsairs had come[…]

(This post is a continuation of The Járngerðarstaðir Farm Family – Part 1. If you haven’t done so already, it’s[…]

(This post is a continuation of The Járngerðarstaðir Farm Family – Parts 1 & 2. If you haven’t done so[…]

Europeans captives enslaved in Algiers dreamed of one thing above all others: being ransomed. If you were a citizen of[…]

(This post is a continuation of Father Pierre Dan and the 1634 Ransoming Expedition to Algiers – Part 1. If[…]