Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 · Boston, J. P. Jewett and company; Cleveland, O., Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington; [etc., etc.] · leaf 36
30 WHITE SLAVERY vitude, one hundred and twenty thousand Chris- tians, almost all subjects of the King of Spaine." ^ Their habit of enslaving prisoners, taken in war and in piratical depredations, at last aroused against these states the sacred animosities of Christendom. Ferdinand the Catholic,… … gon a new world, still occupied his mind, found time to direct an expedition into Africa, under the military command of that great ecclesiastic, Cardinal Ximenes. It is recorded that this val- iant soldier of the church, on effecting the con- quest of Oran, in 1509, had the inexpressible 1…
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