White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islam's One Million White Slaves

In the summer of 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow and fifty-one of his comrades were captured at sea by Barbary corsairs. Their captors--Ali Hakem and his network of Islamic slave traders--had declared war on the whole of Christendom. Pellow and his shipmates were bought by the tyrannical sultan of Morocco. Drawn from the unpublished letters and manuscripts of Pellow and survivors like him, White Gold is a fascinating glimpse at a time long forgotten by history.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 03/09/2021
ISBN: 9781250778239
Pages: 352