The geography of slaving in the early modern Mediterranean, 1500-1800

Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 57-74

  Davis, Robert ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 37349038662     PISSN: 10829636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/10829636-2006-010     Document Type: Review

References (42)

1. Fernand Braudel, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (New York: Harper and Row, 1972)
2. Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell, The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001)
3. David Abulafia, "Mediterraneans," in William V. Harris, ed., Rethinking the Mediterranean (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), 64-93
4. but cf. Michael Herzfeld, "Practical Mediterraneanism: Excuses for Everything, from Epistemology to Eating," in Rethinking the Mediterranean, 45-63
5. and Emile Ledermann, Les Frères de N.-D. de la Merci et la rédemption des captifs (Paris, 1898)
6. E.g., Joāo de Carvalho Mascarenhas, Récit de captivité de Joāo Mascarenhas (1621-1626), trans. and ed. Paul Teyssier (Paris: Editions Chandeigne, 1993), 144
7. David Nirenberg, "Muslims in Christian Iberia, 1000-1526: Variations of Mudejar Experience," in Peter Linehan and Janet L. Nelson, eds., The Medieval World (London: Routledge, 2001), 60-76
8. Denis Romano, Housecraft and Statecraft: Domestic Service in Renaissance Venice (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), 108-9
9. Tenenti, "Gli schiavi veneziani," 54
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11. Salvatore Bono, Schiavi musulmani nell'Italia moderna: galeotti, vu' cumpra', domestici (Napoli: Edizioni scientifiche italiane, 1999), 31
12. The expression, along with "Christian stealing," is a contemporary one; see C. R. Pennell, ed., Piracy and Diplomacy in Seventeenth-Century North Africa: The Journal of Thomas Baker, English Consul in Tripoli, 1677-1685 (London: Associated University Presses, 1989), 120, 124, 129, and 138
13. Stephen Clissold, The Barbary Slaves (New York: Barnes and Noble, 1992), 56
14. Epstein, Speaking of Slavery, 45
15. Pierre Dan, Histoire de Barbarie, et de ses corsaires, 2nd ed. (Paris, 1649), 404-7
16. Ruth Pike, Penal Servitude in Early Modern Spain (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983), 27-40
17. For a breakdown of the changing proportions of free, convict, and slave labor in Italian galleys of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, see Bono, Schiavi musulmani, 166-90
18. Heers, Barbary Corsairs, 192-93
19. Robert Davis, Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500-1800 (Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), 96-97
20. Mary Elizabeth Perry, Crime and Society in Early Modern Seville (Dartmouth, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1980), 20
21. Dan, Histoire de Barbarie, 319
22. Great Britain, Public Record Office, Calendar of State Papers, Domestic series, of the reign of Charles I, 1625-1649 (London, 1858-97), 1635-36, 15:1637, 75
23. Gillian Weiss, "Commerce, Conversion, and French Religious Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean," in Keith Cameron, Mark Greengrass, and Penny Roberts, eds., The Adventure of Religious Pluralism in Early Modern France (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2000), 275-88, at 279-80
24. E.g., Redemptiones Captivorum Constantinopoli & Tripoli liberatorum ... Discaleatorum Ssme Trinitatis, Provinciarum Germaniae & Status Veneti (Roma, 1729-30)
25. Increasingly Turkish villagers tried to buy themselves out of this onerous burden. Eugenio Alberi, Relazioni degli ambasciatori Veneti al Senato, ser. 3, vol. 1 (Firenze, 1840), 138; also 382-85
26. On the organizational similarities between Algerian and Maltese corsairing, see Peter Earle, Corsairs of Malta and Barbary (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1970), 11-15; on slave populations and activities in Malta, see 168-74
27. Earle, Corsairs, 178
28. Fontenay, "Course et piraterie," 87-90
29. Barthelémy Carré, The Travels of the Abbé Carré in India and the Near East, 1672-1674, trans. Lady Fawcett, ed. Sir Charles Fawcett, 3 vols., Hakluyt Society, 2nd ser., vols. 95-97 (London: Hakluyt Society, 1947), 3:937
30. J. Morgan, A Complete History of Algiers, 2 vols, in 1 (London, 1728-29; repr. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1970), 576-78
31. Pennell, Piracy and Diplomacy, 124
32. Braudel, The Mediterranean, 2:849-54
33. Bono, Corsari, 164-72
34. Salvatore Bono, I corsari barbareschi (Torino: ERI-Edizion, 1964), 140
35. Abbé Carré, Travels, 1:22
36. and Philemon de La Motte et al., Voyage pour la redemption des captifs aux royaumes d'Alger et de Tunis (Paris, 1721)
37. trans. J. Morgan as Several voyages to Barbary, 2nd ed. (London, 1736), 99
38. On the famous Icelandic raid of Murat Re'is in 1627, see Borsteinn Helgason, "Historical Narrative as Collective Therapy: the Case of the Turkish Raid in Iceland," Scandinavian Journal of History 22 (1997): 275-89
39. John H. Pryor, Geography, Technology, and War: Studies in the Maritime History of the Mediterranean, 649-1571 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), 194
40. Pryor, Geography, 195-96
41. Pedro Teixeira, The Travels of Pedro Teixeira, ed. and trans. William F. Sinclair, Hakluyt Society, 2nd ser., no. 9 (London: Hakluyt Society, 1902), 139
42. Earle, Corsari, 145