Three and twenty years in captivity among the Moors
by
Thomas Pellow
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2015
In the summer of 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow was captured at sea by Barbary pirates and sold into human bondage to the despotic sultan of Morocco. This riveting memoir of a slave narrative is a story of pluck, and endurance in the face of barbaric splendour and suffering. A remarkable...