LEADER 04525nam 22008055 450 001 9910785733503321 005 20200919101126.0 010 $a1-283-64147-X 010 $a1-137-29503-1 024 7 $a10.1057/9781137295033 035 $a(CKB)2670000000261685 035 $a(EBL)1039451 035 $a(OCoLC)812506778 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000755019 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11413897 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000755019 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10726400 035 $a(PQKB)10641327 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-137-29503-3 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1039451 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000261685 100 $a20151208d2012 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAmerican Slaves and African Masters$b[electronic resource] $eAlgiers and the Western Sahara, 1776-1820 /$fby C. Sears 205 $a1st ed. 2012. 210 1$aNew York :$cPalgrave Macmillan US :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (253 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-349-44353-0 311 $a1-137-26866-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Remembering the "Horror of Mahometan Vassalage"; 1 "This World Is Full of Vicissitudes"; Part I Algiers; 2 "Far Distant from Our Country, Families, Friends, and Connections": American Slaves in Ottoman Algiers; 3 "Once a Citizen of the United States of America, But at Present the Most Miserable Slave": Americans and Slave Community; 4 "American Livestock, Now Slaves in Algiers": Elite Slaves in Ottoman Algiers; 5 "We Set No Great Value upon Money": A Slave Economy 327 $aPart II Western Sahara6 "Sons of Sorrow": American Slaves in the Western Sahara; 7 "Clear the Country of All You Christian Dogs": The Business of Redemption; Epilogue: A Different Kind of Slavery; Notes; Bibliography; Index 330 $aWhether by falling prey to Algerian corsairs or crashing onto the desert shores of Western Sahara, a handful of Americans in the first years of the Republic found themselves enslaved in a system that differed so markedly from nineteenth century U.S. slavery that some contemporaries and modern scholars hesitate to categorize their experiences as 'slavery.' Sears uses a comparative approach, placing African enslavement of Americans and Europeans in the context of Mediterranean and Ottoman slaveries, while individually investigating the system of slavery in Algiers and Western Sahara. This work illuminates the commonalities and peculiarities of these slaveries, while contributing to a growing body of literature that showcases the flexibility of slavery as an institution. 606 $aAfrica?History 606 $aUnited States?History 606 $aHistory, Modern 606 $aAmerica?History 606 $aAfrica, North?History 606 $aSocial justice 606 $aHuman rights 606 $aAfrican History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/714000 606 $aUS History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/718010 606 $aModern History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/713000 606 $aHistory of the Americas$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/718000 606 $aHistory of North Africa$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/714010 606 $aSocial Justice, Equality and Human Rights$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X33070 615 0$aAfrica?History. 615 0$aUnited States?History. 615 0$aHistory, Modern. 615 0$aAmerica?History. 615 0$aAfrica, North?History. 615 0$aSocial justice. 615 0$aHuman rights. 615 14$aAfrican History. 615 24$aUS History. 615 24$aModern History. 615 24$aHistory of the Americas. 615 24$aHistory of North Africa. 615 24$aSocial Justice, Equality and Human Rights. 676 $a306.3620965 700 $aSears$b C$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01476009 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785733503321 996 $aAmerican Slaves and African Masters$93690415 997 $aUNINA