Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters by R Davis

Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters by R Davis

This is a study that digs deeply into this 'other' slavery, the bondage of Europeans by North-African Muslims that flourished during the same centuries as the heyday of the trans-Atlantic trade from sub-Saharan Africa to the Americas. Here are explored the actual extent of Barbary Coast slavery, the dynamic relationship between master and slave, and the effects of this slaving on Italy, one of the slave takers' primary targets and victims.

'Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters is about a subject of immense importance, which has been strangely neglected..It is very well researched, and... at a time of unprecedented interest in racial slavery in America, it is interesting to read a crucial and informative preview to that subject.' - David Brion Davis, Yale University

ROBERT C. DAVIS is a Professor of Italian Social History at the Ohio State University. He has previously researched and written on gender in Renaissance Italian cities, on the shipbuilders of the Venetian state arsenal, on various forms of sport in Renaissance Venice, and on past and present-day tourism in Venice.

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ISBN 13	9781403945518
ISBN 10	1403945519
Title	Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters
Author	R Davis
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Palgrave USA
Year published	2003-09-16
Number of pages	246
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