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Captives and Countrymen: Barbary Slavery and the American Public, 1785--1816
Captives and Countrymen Barbary Slavery and the American Public 17851816
Author: Lawrence A. Peskin
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the Barbary States captured and held for ransom nearly five hundred American sailors. The attacks on Americans abroad -- and the government's apparent inability to control the situation -- deeply scarred the public. Captives and Countrymen examines the effect of these acts on early national c...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780801891397
ISBN-10: 0801891396
Publication Date: 2/18/2009
Pages: 272
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Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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