Advantages: Readable, fact-filled account of a little-known area of history Disadvantages: Explicit brutality
...the practice of trading in white slaves from across Europe and colonial North America had been established for over a century. I was shocked to learn of raids that had been carried out in Cornwall, Wales and as far afield as Iceland, to supplement the numbers taken on the high seas. Morocco was not the only destination, either: "Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli also had thriving slave trade auctions" at this time. The larger story that Giles Milton therefore ... ...life. The tragedy is that it was not better understood in its time. Highly Recommended!
White Gold is published by Hodder & Stoughton ISBN 0340794690, cover price £18.99, currently selling on Amazon at £15.99. A paperback edition has just been released ISBN 0340794704, price £7.99. ...
Discerna 05.05.2005
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