Peskin Lawrence A.:
Captives And Countrymen
Barbary Slavery And The American Public, 1785-1816
Johns Hopkins University Press (United States), 2009
Hardback, 288 pages
Size: 229x152 mm
ISBN: 9780801891397
ISBN-10: 0801891396
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Captives And Countrymen
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the Barbary States captured and held for ransom nearly five hundred American sailors. The attacks on Americans abroad deeply scarred the public. This work examines the effect of these acts on early national culture and on the republic's conception of itself and its position in the world.
