American slaves and African masters [Texte imprimé] : Algiers and the Western Sahara, 1776-1820 / by Christine E. Sears

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Introduction : remembering the "horror of Mahometan vassalage" -- "This world is full of vicissitudes" -- "Far distant from our country, families friends and connections" : American slaves in Ottoman Algiers -- "Once a citizen of the United States of America, but at present the most miserable slave" : Americans and slave community -- "American livestock, now slaves in Algiers" : elite slaves in Ottoman Algiers -- "We set no great value upon money" : a slave economy -- "Sons of sorrow" : American slaves in the Western Sahara -- "Clear the country of all you Christian dogs" : the business of redemption -- Epilogue : a different kind of slavery.