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White Slavery and Barbary Captivity by joãoandre artur is a document available to read on EtoBox.

This article discusses narratives written by American captives held in North Africa during the Barbary Wars in the early 19th century. The accounts reveal the hypocrisy of early Americans who opposed white slavery abroad but accepted black slavery in America. While often fictionalized, the stories portrayed Arabs negatively and were widely disseminated. One account in particular, Captain James Riley

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