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White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's One Million European Slaves | 
 enlarge | Author: Giles Milton
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 359531
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.3
ISBN: 0340794690
Dewey Decimal Number: 323
EAN: 9780340794692
ASIN: 0340794690
Publication Date: June 7, 2004
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Condition: Ex-public library, usual stamps and markings, OK condition age related discolouration of page edges
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Writer and journalist Giles Milton specializes in the history of travel and exploration. His latest literary adventure, White Gold, is the story of Thomas Pellow, a Cornish cabin boy who was captured at sea by a group of fanatical Islamic slave traders—the Barbary corsairs, taken in chains to the great slave markets of Algiers, Tunis and Sale in Morocco and sold to the highest bidder. Pellow's purchaser happened to be the tyrannical sultan of Morroco, Moulay Ismail, a man committed to building a vast imperial pleasure palace of unsurpassable splendour built entirely by Christian slave labour. After enduring long periods of torture Pellow converted to Islam and became the personal slave of the sultan for over two decades—including a stint as a soldier in the sultan's army—before finally making a dramatic escape and return to Cornwall. The account is supported by the unpublished letters and manuscripts of slaves and the various ambassadors sent to free them. This is an excellently written account of the history of the white slave trade. Pellow's story is an extraordinary one but the real interest lies in the picture Milton builds of life in the slave pens and especially of daily life at the court of the spectacularly barbaric Moulay Ismail. --Larry Brown
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 The Moor's Revenge May 31, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love Giles Milton's books. If you haven't read Nathaniel's Nutmeg or Samurai William, then do so.
I already knew a bit of this story - that Barbary corsairs raided the Cornish and Irish coasts in the seventeenth century for slaves, but I wasn't aware of the enormous scale of the Moroccan and Algerian white slave trade. Or that it continued up to the Congress of Vienna. And I had never heard of the dramatic incident that brought it to an end - a British fleet, massively armed thanks to Britain being in the first flush of the Industrial Revolution, pounding Algiers to rubble until the local sultan agreed to give up the trade.
And did you know that an abusive gesture used by Muslims to Christians was to raise the middle finger, to indicate that there was just one God? Anyway, a great read.
Remind the world... April 2, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Yet again written in a style that allows everyone to read it, Milton delivers. He has such an eye for the long forgotten but fascinating tale that it stands out as adventure and serious History with ease.
Long may such work continue as it allows you to have fun and make you feel like you have read a 'proper book' rather than a simple crowd pleaser.
Slavery was not all triangular trade September 12, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Truth stranger than fiction told about a little known historical story. If you have ever wondered about pub signs with Moorish heads, here is the answer. For centuries, European sea coast communities and our sailors were at risk from the Barbary Corsairs, Muslims from North Africa after their expulsion from Spain. This threat continued until ended by British naval "diplomacy" less than two centuries ago. Here you learn of brital Moulay Ismail building a palace to be bigger than contemporary Versailles with 100% white Christian slave labour. If anyone apostacised they received better treatment but lost their hope of ransom by any Christian nation. How Thomas Pellow endured this from captured cabin boy until he escaped after many years is a truly incredible story. Even more amazing is than a descendant should be the naval officer to end this barbarism. Read and learn.
History revisited September 11, 2007
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
great read from much reasearch that broght a hell of a story together
my only wish would have been to have surviving details on the rest of his life
even his death date seems to be lost
yet another succesful book from this author
Excellent True story. Should be compulsory reading in all schools August 20, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
An excellent true Real life story of the horrors many White Europeans had to suffer at the hands of islamists. A piece of our history hidden from todays ignorant masses re told here in fascinating and enthralling detail. A truly great read.
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