Drawn from unpublished letters and manuscripts written by slaves, and by the padres and ambassadors sent to free them, it reveals a disturbing and forgotten chapter of history, told with all the pace and verve of one of our finest historians. Drawn from the narrative of Thomas Pellow, as well as the rediscovered letters and diaries of European slaves held captive in Morocco, White Goldrecreates a. WHITE GOLD is an extraordinary and shocking story. He was one of the fortunate few who survived to tell his tale. White Gold by Giles Milton (202 results) You searched for: Author: giles milton, Title: white gold. For twenty-three years, he would dream of his home, his family and freedom. White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islams One Million White Slaves by Milton, Giles and a great selection of related books.
Thomas Pellow was selected to be a personal slave of the sultan, and he would witness first-hand the barbaric splendour of the imperial Moroccan court, as well as experience daily terror. The sultan was constructing an imperial pleasure palace of enormous scale and grandeur, built entirely by Christian slave labour. customarily elegant prose. Pellow was bought by the tyrannical sultan of Morocco, who bragged that his white slaves enabled him to hold all of Europe to ransom. Giles Milton's White Gold tells the true story of white European slaves in eighteenth century Algiers, Tunis, and Morocco. Thousands of Europeans had been snatched from their homes and taken in chains to the great slave markets of Algiers, Tunis and Sale in Morocco to be sold to the highest bidder. Their captors - fanatical Islamic slave traders - had declared war on the whole of Christendom. In the summer of 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow and fifty-two of his comrades were captured at sea by the Barbary corsairs.
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