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

White Gold : The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islam's One Million White Slaves
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Remarkable true story of white European slaves in the eighteenth century Algiers, Tusis, and Morocco told in inimitable style by one of our finest popular historians. A Cornish cabin boy and 51 of his comrades were captured at sea. He became a slave for 23 years before escaping.