White women captives in North Africa

By Khalid Bekkaoui

Subjects: Biography, Captivity narratives, Women, europe, Women slaves, Women, social conditions, Europeans, History

Description: "A fascinating anthology of historical narratives composed from the late sixteenth to early nineteenth centuries by European women abducted by Muslim corsairs and enslaved in North Africa during the age of piracy. Many of the narratives are very rare and are by women coming from diverse social and economic backgrounds"--