Category: Captives

This week we continue the series of posts about Algiers, describing what the experience would have been like for European[…]

This week we continue the series of posts about Algiers, describing what the experience would have been like for European[…]

This week we continue the series of posts about Algiers, describing what the experience would have been like for European[…]

Some weeks back, I posted a series of excerpts from Pierre Dan’s Histoire de Barbarie about the history of Algiers.[…]

This week, we conclude the series of excerpts of an English translation of Relation de la captivité du Sr. Moüette dans[…]

This week, we continue the series of excerpts of an English translation of Relation de la captivité du Sr. Moüette[…]

This week, we continue the series of excerpts of an English translation of Relation de la captivité du Sr. Moüette[…]

This week, we continue the series of excerpts of an English translation of Relation de la captivité du Sr. Moüette[…]

In October of 1670, a nineteen-year-old Frenchman named Germain Moüette had the misfortune to be captured by corsairs from Salé.[…]

We started this year (2023) with a series of excepts from a captivity narrative written by a Portuguese soldier named[…]