Category: Captives

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[…]

This week continues with the excerpt from Tyrkjarans-Saga describing the experiences of Einar Loptsson, an Icelander enslaved in Algiers in[…]

In the summer of 1627, two sets of Barbary corsairs—one from Salé, one from Algiers—raided Iceland. The Salé corsairs pillaged[…]

It’s been two weeks since I last posted anything in this blog. My apologies. I’ve been overwhelmed with last-minute work[…]

In the early 1600s, Barbary corsairs were on a role—as the saying goes. From Europeans, they had learned how to[…]

This week, we conclude the series of extracts from the narrative of João de Carvalho Mascarenhas, the Portuguese soldier who[…]

This week, we continue with the narrative of João de Carvalho Mascarenhas, the Portuguese soldier who was captured at sea[…]

This week, we continue with the narrative of João de Carvalho Mascarenhas, the Portuguese soldier who was captured at sea[…]