Category: Captives

This week, we continue with the captivity narrative of John Foss, a crewmember aboard an American merchant ship who, in[…]

This week, we continue with the captivity narrative of Joh Foss, a crewmember aboard an American merchant ship who, in[…]

We’re going to do something a little bit different for the next few weeks. Mostly, the narratives, enquiries, backgrounds, translations,[…]

Early seventeenth century Algiers was not a large city geographically, certainly not by modern standards. It was a harbor city,[…]

This week, we conclude the series of posts about the Charitie, the English merchant ship that was captured by corsairs[…]

This week, we continue with the tale of the Charitie. Last week, remember, the Charitie and its crew had been[…]

This week, we continue the series of posts about the Charitie, the English merchant ship that was captured by corsairs[…]

For Europeans, the early seventeenth century was dangerous time to be out at sea, particularly in the Mediterranean, which was[…]

This week, we’re going to look at the slave population of Algiers in the early seventeenth century. First, though, a[…]

This week we continue the story of Father Pierre Dan’s ransoming expedition to Algiers in 1634. When Yusuf Basha (the[…]