Gripping, immaculately researched, and brilliantly realised, WHITE GOLD reveals an explosive chapter of popular history, told with all the pace and verve of one of our finest historians. As his personal slave, he would witness first-hand the barbaric splendour of the imperial court, as well as experience the daily terror of a cruel regime. Pellow was bought by the tyrannical sultan of Morocco who was constructing an imperial pleasure palace of enormous scale and grandeur, built entirely by Christian slave labour. William Palmer: Europeans For Sale - White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Americas One Million European Slaves by Giles Milton. Using the firsthand testimony of a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow, Giles Milton vividly reconstructs a disturbing, little known chapter of history. The Story of Thomas Pellow in Morocco: The book White Gold follows the journey of an 11-year-old boy by the name of Thomas Pellow, who was kidnapped in 1715 whilst on a trading mission aboard his uncle’s ship, sailing from Falmouth in Cornwall to Genoa. Ignored by their own governments, and forced to endure the harshest of conditions, very few lived to tell the tale. Buy White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islams One Million White Slaves from Walmart Canada. This is the forgotten story of the million white Europeans, snatched from their homes and taken in chains to the great slave markets of North Africa to be sold to the highest bidder. In 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow and 51 comrades were captured at sea by the Barbary corsairs.
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