White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's One Million European Slaves
by:
Giles Milton (author)
Ignored by their own governments, and forced to endure the harshest of conditions, this book tells the forgotten story of the million white Europeans, taken in chains to the great slave markets of North Africa. Using the firsthand testimony of a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow, it...
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Ignored by their own governments, and forced to endure the harshest of conditions, this book tells the forgotten story of the million white Europeans, taken in chains to the great slave markets of North Africa. Using the firsthand testimony of a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow, it reconstructs a little known chapter of history.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780340794708 (0340794704)
ASIN: 340794704
Publish date: May 9th 2005
Publisher: Sceptre
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
White Gold is the only book my library had about white slavery and I was really looking forward to reading it. I don't know how it is in other countries, but I know here in America there isn't anything taught about white slavery. Apparently there were even white slaves here in America, but I've foun...
Initially I was under the impression that this book is a historical novel, so I wasted first 20 pages waiting for the novel to start thinking I am just reading some extremely long prologue. Once I realised it was actually historical non fiction I started really enjoying it. Milton unearthenes some l...
Initially I was under the impression that this book is a historical novel, so I wasted first 20 pages waiting for the novel to start. Once I realised it was actually historical non fiction I started really enjoying it. Milton unearthenes some little known part of world history and delivers it to us ...
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