Horrors of Slavery

Or, the American Tars in Tripoli

AvWilliam Ray,Hester Blum

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

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Beskrivning

Barbary pirates in Africa targeted sailors for centuries, often taking slaves and demanding ransom in exchange. First published in 1808, Horrors of Slavery is the tale of one such sailor, captured during the United States's first military encounter with the Islamic world, the Tripolitan War. William Ray, along with three hundred crewmates, spent nineteen months in captivity after his ship, the Philadelphia, ran aground in the harbor of Tripoli. Imprisoned, Ray witnessed-and chronicled-many of the key moments of the military engagement. In addition to offering a compelling history of a little-known war, this book presents the valuable perspective of an ordinary seaman who was as concerned with the injustices of the U.S. Navy as he was with Barbary pirates.Hester Blum's introduction situates Horrors of Slavery in its literary, historical, and political contexts, bringing to light a crucial episode in the early history of our country's relations with Islamic states.A volume in the Subterranean Lives series, edited by Bradford Verter

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2008-09-11
Mått:152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt:369 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Subterranean Lives
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Rutgers University Press
ISBN:9780813544137

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HESTER BLUM is an assistant professor of English at Penn State University. She is the author of The View from the Masthead: Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives

Recensioner i media

William Ray's Barbary captivity narrative takes us on a wide-ranging journey through genres and geographies: from Philadelphia to North Africa, in prose and in poetry, Ray narrates the remarkable history of his experiences as a sailor, prisoner, and keen political observer during the Tripolitan War. This superb edition of RayÆs text marks a key contribution to the genre of the captivity narrative in early American literature and provides a window onto an important historical episode of the early national periodÙnamely, the earliest military encounters between the U.S. and Islamic states. - Elizabeth Maddock Dillon (author of The Gender of Freedom: Fictions of Liberalism and the Literary Public)

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChronologyA Note on the TextHorrors of Slavery; or, The American Tars in TripoliExordiumI. Introductory RemarksII. Commencement of ServiceIII. A Sketch of BiographyIV. Suicide AttemptedV. Embarkation—Celebration of Independence—Exemplary Punishment, &c.VI. A VoyageVII. Exercising ShipVIII. Remarks on Dr. Cowdery's JournalIX. A PetitionX. Commodore Preble's Engagement with the TripolitansXI. ElegyXII. Description of the PlaceXIII. Manners, Customs &c. of the TripolitansXIV. Public Transactions of the United States with the Regency of Tripoli; Including General Eaton's ExpeditionXV. Sketch of General Eaton's ExpeditionXVI. Return HomePoetry, Published in The Albany Register, during the summer of 1807Explanatory NotesFurther Reading