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White slavery in the Barbary states (1853)

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 · Boston, J. P. Jewett and company; Cleveland, O., Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington; [etc., etc.] · leaf 44

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38 WHITE SLAVERY Eainsborough, against Sallee, in Morocco. At Ms approach, the Moors desperately transferred a thousand captives, British subjects, to Tunis and Algiers. "Some Christians, that were slaves ashore, stole away out of the towne, and came swimming aboard."^ Intestine feud also aided the… … Sallee to re- deem the wretched captives, sold away to Tunis and Algiers. An ambassador from the King of Morocco shortly afterwards visited England, and, on his way through the streets of London, to his audience at court, was attended " by four Barbary horses led along in rich caparisons, and…

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