Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast and Italy, 1500-1800 (Early Modern History)
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politically incorrect history
Covered of of this book the argument of jihad of the terrorist, under
shape of slavery, that it has happened from the agents not-to declare
for a period of 300 years. In that sense, the western world is
applicable to the situation ch' still finds itself within today. Davis
supplies the documentation of the throrough of its sources, so as to
this job is one good resource for those interested to pursue ulterior
studies on the subject of enslavement the Muslim of the Christians.
Hmmm. Important but misleading.
1. It is an important book in chronicaling slavery throughout the world in the last 500 years.
2. However, it misleads the reader to think that slavery was the same throughout the world. Though evil is evil, it is important to recognize that different cultures had different rules, rules that could make or break a person. For example, Muslim slavery rarely involved the enslavement of a person for life, especially not that person's offspring. In most cases slaves could not even be sold from person to person and had several rights concerning family.
This marks a vital difference between their practice with slavery and the European practice of chattel slavery: where a person was a slave for life, had NO rights concerning family, and their offspring were immediately and forever the property of their enslaver.
3. The other problem with this book is that it suggests that the primary way that Muslims got European slaves was through raids. On the contrary, just like in Africa, raiding was a minor way of obtaining slaves. The truth is that the Europeans, like Africans, sold each other into slavery. There were various massive ports in Europe, such as Venice in Italy, that grew wealthy from the selling of other Europeans into slavery.
The Triumph Of Greed
This book illuminates an important dynamic of history. Africans were enslaving Europeans. Europeans were enslaving Africans. Africans were selling the members of competing African tribes to Europeans for enslavement. The constant in all this is greed.
Slavery in the East
While the book was interesting from an historical perspective, it is one not meant for leisure reading. I commend the writer for diligence in research and recommend this as a supplimental text for the person interested in reading additional materials relating to the current conflict between Christians and Muslims.
A wonderful read to reflect on the history and today
Reading this wonderful book, it cannot contribute to reflect from then
on the Slavic history when such commerce has happened, therefore like
that Europe is facing today. It is important to remember itself of the
history and to learn them the necessary lesson, otherwise, we do not
have sense to prevent the history to repeat itself. Also I cannot
contribute to wonder: why such history is not said to in our schools
and our means? Which thing is the reason for which this history he has
become therefore sensitive also after 200 years since the relative
extremity that our governments and our means would not never wish them
to know? Our governments and our means have sold theirs soles in
fashion from being able to justify them that what has made in order to
promote the foreign interests that are damaging our own cultivation,
our free society and the western civilizzazione in every sense? How we
could allow that people that wish to kill anyone that their God does
not obey in order to come to our society? How we could allow those
threathening our every day fundamental rights of the free life of
freedom and expression in our society with the social well-being and
the better benefits? How we could allow that that people construct the
mosques that they are growing our landscape quickly where every moment
hatred to the cultivation and the christianity western is taught and
the brainwash defective is lead and all financed from the moneies of
ours contributors? (in Germany there are more than 3.000 mosques
already, more in France, entire financed from the governments)How
could we allow those the talk for debit is the Islam that christianity
an equal condition in the west while our own politicians are trying
therefore hard to destroy I pray our own religion to those who has
tried for several centuries but not successful never? Naturally, there
are many immigrant that wish to integrate in our society and to be
good citizens, but is moreover the people who oppose our
civilizzazione in every sense, that she wishes to kill it and she
destroys our society for their religion. We have used to fight the
enemies who invade them from the external part, hour ringraziamo to
our governments, we we must fight give them within. It is nearly an
impossible operation. With the rate natality of the Muslims 5 times of
the Christians during the 50 last years, we are minorities becoming in
our own countries more fastly than we have realized. After the reading
of the world-famous journalist, book of Oriana Fallaci of the producer
the REASON FORCE, I know that the west head for an autodistruction
total. Hour with this book on an important western history part that
nearly it has lost, all that lives in the west would have to reflect
on the urgency of the today and to use our rights to fight for our
freedom, hour or never Is our responsibility to prevent the history to
repeat itself.
Little known history
Mass slavery in the popular imagination had always been associated with the capture and subsequent enslavement of Africans. With good reason. The sheer scale of the African slave trade stretched the limits of imagination. Enslaved Africans were ubiquitous from Brazil to the Carribbean to the plantations in the Southern United States. Slavery undergirded economies, dehumanized victims and victimizers alike and generated profits for those who benefited from this egregious institution. In the Western world, especially the United States, the history of slavery bares a black face. There is no denying the suffering of Africans in bondage. Robert C. Davis, author of Chritian Slaves, Muslim Masters,however, presents us with another picture of bondage, one no less brutal, repressive and disheartening. This bondage was experienced by Europeans at the hands of North African Muslims. Between 1500 and 1800, dates in the subtitle, corsairs sanctioned by the North African govenments of Tunis, Tripoli, Algiers and Morrocco attacked European ships in the Medditeranean and raided European shores. These plundering expeditions netted hundreds of thousands of captives. As many as a million and a quarter Europeans, according to the author, were enslaved by North Africans. A small figure compared to the estimated twelve million Africans carried off to the new world over a span of centuries, but not an inconsiderable one by itself. The author channels a prodigious research effort into a detailed anaylsis of slave life, how they were captured, their national origins, the types of labor they were consigned to and their physical and mental states. Muslims raids reached as far afield as Iceland, but the proximity of Italy to the North African coast made it a convenient and frequent target for Muslim slaving activities. For that reson, the author devotes a considerable amount of space to how Italians coped with constant raids along their shores. The parallels the reader can draw between European and African slavery during this period are undeniable. Captured human beings in both cases came from all walks of life. Their traumatic experience of capture was compounded by the humiliation of being displayed to prospective buyers like merchandise. As there was no plantation system in North Africa, Europeans did not toil in the midst of sugar canes or cotton fields. Many, however, were put to work in galleys, others hauling rocks at construction sites, working in mines or cutting timber. Whatever their labor, Davis decribes horrendous conditions to which European slaves were subjected; disease, unabated hunger, all manner of cruelty inflicted upon them by their masters and the general despair of captivity. Of course, a European slave had a higher chance of seeing his homeland again than an African slave. North Africans were more keen on ransoming their captives than Europeans and Americans in possession of African slaves. Still, lifelong captivity was the sad fate of a myriad of Europeans caught by Barbary corsairs. The tone of this book is purely scholastic. Facts and figures are prominant, but anecdotal accounts from primary sources add a human element to this work. The author does more than reveal this little known history of slavery in all its sordid detail. He delves into some historiograhpy, offering his theory on why European slavery has been downplayed in the annals. His take on this matter is a fitting conclusion to a well researched, remarkably informative book.
The other side of the coin
There are many reasons to suggest one good reading of the Christian
slaves, muslim masters, from Robert Davis. The greater question is
where to begin. The subject is large, but in great part disowned in
odierno world. During approximately three centuries, the ships of the
Muslims prowled the Mediterranean and the Atlantic (that it goes once
until the Islanda) to the search of the Christians in order enslaving
occasionally. In the total, approximately million Europeans have
suffered this orribile destiny. Davis divides the text in three parts:
the taken one of the enslaved white men, their life and treatment in
muslim lands and a look to as the Italian peninsula has been
influenced within the centuries of predazione. Basically, at all
European to edge a ship or the life close to the shoreline could be
blocked with little warning. After that one, they could preview one
hard and often short terrible life. Several the species of the job
could be previewed, but most common it was than to be one enslaved of
the galley, remante the muslim ships of the pirata one. Some were
ransomed of new to their families to time. Poichè the Muslims were
enough disposed to transmit raiding leave themselves inner, the effect
on Italy had to transmit to the relative litoranea population behind
waters and to dip the relative ship that enters and that they fishes
the occupations in the perpetual terror. The facts are better fleshed
outside in the text in if and not there is reason more of the glance
they here. There are several points that important I wish to make, in
no particular order, approximately writing of Davis who can influence
the possible readers. In the first place, it defines the level of
dispassionate writing simply. Even if I could find that this was a
impressionabile subject, also would have to be, not there are
absolutely inflammatory observations or passages to find. The sense
that the author covers this fine line is narcotic. The reader of
Non-Musulmani, naturally, will be insulted, but this will be based
entire on satisfying and not on the grandstanding authorial. The
following comment interests Atlantic the commerce far away good-known
of the slave. Davis makes the comparisons, the best one occasional to
evidence the likenesses and the differences. The greater difference is
in the numbers - twelve million black Africans capacities in the
Americas against a million European capacities to the Barbary
Dichiara. For influenced people then, benchè, this it is probably the
little important difference. Determined lack in the ag contributes to
evidence one, as small it has been written approximately the commerce
of the slave of Barbary. For some backs the Atlantic commerce was
qualitatively defective. The greater part of the slaves has been
concluded in on on the tropical plantations of the sugar in which the
duration of the average life he was I thinks on the order of seven
years. Without R-with regard to the destination, not there was
probabilities of dismissal to house, various for of European that
could hope of being ransomed. In other senses, the Muslims were
defective. Probably not there is no particular one of the job harder
than that one than one enslaved of the galley and was the main
destination for European blocks to you from Muslims. The durations of
the life could have been much court effectively after that one. An
other qualitative difference was in the attitudes of the Slavic
owners. Between the new colonizzatori of the world, the primary reason
was profit. No doubt their attitudes could have been racist and cruel.
But with the slavers muslim, relished positively the joy to try down
European. It made part of a war that it was igniting for the centuries
and to that time the Muslims were happy terrorize the entire sea.
Poichè Davis extension, the muslim blockings of the slave are only
diminished while they have adopted navigation of the ships in the
greater numbers, reducing the requirement of the rowers and while the
European governments are it develops enough strong in order to arrest
them to you. Every single country of participation of the Atlantic
commerce of the slave valid has rinnegato the slavery, in all the
cases behind in the nineteenth century, neither towards the west the
African will more declare the sale their people on the spiagge. The
only place in the modern world in which still it ignites is in the
zones Muslims of Africa of the north, benchè the victims hour is
secondary-Saharan black Africans. A final consideration is this: the
reading deun such book can contribute to overwhelm the gap in the
personal perspectives between the readers upgrades them. I wonder how
many Americans, all who learn approximately our own history of slavery
of the south of the plantation to school, can really read on the
Atlantic passage and the horrors succeeded to you and really to think
to that what was like on the reception extremity. Without a strong
effort and an imagination, I imagine that more approximately twelve
for hundreds of the Americans to read such things are rather difficult
in order and to obtain personally insulted, in order to really think
that what must be like. It is too much at a distance solo from our own
experience in order to describe itself like tribali Africans of
seventeenth century. But wager that it is easier to describe itself
more like European in advance payment, than it has been dragged from
our centers from the raiders of the Muslim or outside of the ships
from the traders of the Muslim. The reading deun such book could have
been one good practice in empathy personal. Sure it is a good practice
in the historical acquaintance and Davis must be praised in order to
produce therefore be dealt free on a mainly invisibile problem.
A fascinating book on a little known subject
Many people are aware of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, but not many are aware of the trans-Mediterranean slave trade, in which Christians and Muslims took each other as slaves. By far, the most successful of these slavers were the Barbary corsairs, who probably succeeded in capturing at least one million Christian Europeans from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth. In this fascinating book, author and historian Robert C. Davis, Profess of History at Ohio State University, looks at these Muslim slavers, at who and how many slaves were taken, at how they were used after capture, and the effect this slave-taking had (primarily in Italy).I found this to be an absolutely fascinating book on a little known subject. When reading a biography of Jeffrey Hudson, Queen Henrietta Maria (1609-69) of England's favorite dwarf ("Lord Minimus" by Nick Page), I was surprised to find out that he was captured by Barbary corsairs, while crossing from France to England(!), and spent years as a slave in North Africa. This was far from an isolated event. Indeed, far-off Iceland was subject to corsair slave-raiding.
Now, as the author fully admits, unlike with the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the North African slavers did not produce much in the way of documents from which to draw numbers of slaves taken and so forth. As such, Professor Davis did need to draw his conclusions based on limited information, but I did find his conclusions to be well reasoned and quite convincing. Also, he was at pains to point out that these slaving activities went on in both directions, and that it was not a purely Muslim activity.
So, are you interested in reading about a fascinating, and yet little known facet of European and Middle Eastern history? If so, then I highly recommend this book to you. It has a great deal to say, and is already sparking debate across the world. Buy this book!
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