Category: Captives

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

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

We know about the details of the Barbary corsair raid on East Iceland in 1627 because of an Icelandic document[…]

This week, we continue with the series of excerpts from Enslaved: The Story of the Barbary Corsair Raid on East[…]

This week, we continue with the series of excerpts from Enslaved: The Story of the Barbary Corsair Raid on East[…]

This week, we continue with a series of excerpts from Enslaved: The Story of the Barbary Corsair Raid on East[…]

This week, we continue with a series of excerpts from Enslaved: The Story of the Barbary Corsair Raid on East[…]

This week, we continue with a series of excerpts from Enslaved: The Story of the Barbary Corsair Raid on East[…]

Earlier this summer, my Icelandic colleague, Karl Smári Hreinsson, and I published a new book on the Tyrkjaránið (the Turkish[…]

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