March 11, 2004
Europeans as slaves
Interesting article, A million Europeans enslaved, on an Ohio State historian's book, 
Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500-1800.
In course of researching my second book, Romance on the Road, I learned that some individual women had ended up as captives in the royal harems of Turkey after high-seas piracy. The most famous example is Aimee Dubucq de Rivery, whose story is told in The Wilder Shores of Love. It makes sense that such abductions were part of a larger patterns of white slavery.
- posted by jbelliveau at 10:21 AM in Love, Sex, Romance and Travel
