Download or read book The Galley Slave s Ring written by Eugène Sue and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mysteries of the People The galley slave s ring written by Eugène Sue and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Galley Slave written by Jean Marteilhe and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2010-06-14 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable memoir tells of the miseries of Jean Marteilhe of Bergerac, a Protestant condemned to the Galleys of France for his Religion, who, after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, attempted, like so many French Huguenots, to escape to the more sympathetic Protestant countries bordering France. In 1700, heading through the Ardennes towards Charleroi, he was captured by French Dragoons and thrown into gaol.In 1707 he then found himself, like so many Huguenots, condemned to serve in the French Mediterranean galleys. Little is known of life as a galley slave on these oared vessels. Certainly no accounts have come down to us from ancient Greece or Rome, though a little is known from the time of the Crusades. So Marteilhes racy account represents the only authentic record of the miseries of a galley slave who experienced all the horrors of whips and chains and the dreaded bastinado—foot whipping.For six years he pulled his oar, often seeing friends and co-religionists lashed—sometimes to death—under the whips of the overseers. He himself sustained almost fatal injuries in a bloody engagement with the British off the mouth of the Thames before being released under a general amnesty in 1713.Galley Slave brings vividly to life the sufferings and conditions on the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century galleys and is a unique and unforgettable account.
Download or read book The Huguenot Galley slave written by Jean Marteilhe and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History written by Jeremy Black and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History, Jeremy Black presents a compact yet comprehensive survey of slavery and its impact on the world, primarily centered on the Atlantic trade. Opening with a clear discussion of the problems of defining slavery, the book goes on to investigate the Atlantic slave trade from its origins to abolition, including comparisons to other systems of slavery outside the Atlantic region and the persistence of modern-day slavery. Crucially, the book does not ask readers to abandon their emotional ties to the subject, but puts events in context so that it becomes clear how such an institution not only arose, but flourished. Black shows that slavery and the slave trade were not merely add-ons to the development of Western civilization, but intimately linked to it. In a vital and accessible narrative, The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History enables students to understand this terrible element of human history and how it shaped the modern world.
Download or read book The Galley Slaves of Love written by Charlotte Haldane and published by London : Harvill Press. This book was released on 1957 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Sea written by David Abulafia and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connecting Europe, Asia, and Africa, the Mediterranean Sea has been for millennia the place where religions, economies, and political systems met, clashed, influenced and absorbed one another. In this brilliant and expansive book, David Abulafia offers a fresh perspective by focusing on the sea itself: its practical importance for transport and sustenance; its dynamic role in the rise and fall of empires; and the remarkable cast of characters-sailors, merchants, migrants, pirates, pilgrims-who have crossed and re-crossed it. Ranging from prehistory to the 21st century, The Great Sea is above all a history of human interaction. Interweaving major political and naval developments with the ebb and flow of trade, Abulafia explores how commercial competition in the Mediterranean created both rivalries and partnerships, with merchants acting as intermediaries between cultures, trading goods that were as exotic on one side of the sea as they were commonplace on the other. He stresses the remarkable ability of Mediterranean cultures to uphold the civilizing ideal of convivencia, "living together." Now available in paperback, The Great Sea is the definitive account of perhaps the most vibrant theater of human interaction in history.
Download or read book A New Dictionary of the Italian and English Languages written by Giuseppe Baretti and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A New Dictionary of the Italian and English Languages Based Upon that of Baretti Compiled by John Davenport and Guglielmo Comelati written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sun King at Sea written by Meredith Martin and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated volume, the first devoted to maritime art and galley slavery in early modern France, shows how royal propagandists used the image and labor of enslaved Muslims to glorify Louis XIV. Mediterranean maritime art and the forced labor on which it depended were fundamental to the politics and propaganda of France’s King Louis XIV (r. 1643–1715). Yet most studies of French art in this period focus on Paris and Versailles, overlooking the presence or portrayal of galley slaves on the kingdom’s coasts. By examining a wide range of artistic productions—ship design, artillery sculpture, medals, paintings, and prints—Meredith Martin and Gillian Weiss uncover a vital aspect of royal representation and unsettle a standard picture of art and power in early modern France. With an abundant selection of startling images, many never before published, The Sun King at Sea emphasizes the role of esclaves turcs (enslaved Turks)—rowers who were captured or purchased from Islamic lands—in building and decorating ships and other art objects that circulated on land and by sea to glorify the Crown. Challenging the notion that human bondage vanished from continental France, this cross-disciplinary volume invites a reassessment of servitude as a visible condition, mode of representation, and symbol of sovereignty during Louis XIV’s reign.
Download or read book A Naval and Military Technical Dictionary of the French Language written by Robert Burn and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Forgotten Slave Trade written by Simon Webb and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2020-12-28 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A solid introduction and useful survey of slaving activity by the Muslims of North Africa over the course of several centuries.” —Chronicles Everybody knows about the transatlantic slave trade, which saw black Africans snatched from their homes, taken across the Atlantic Ocean and then sold into slavery. However, a century before Britain became involved in this terrible business, whole villages and towns in England, Ireland, Italy, Spain and other European countries were being depopulated by slavers, who transported the men, women and children to Africa where they were sold to the highest bidder. This is the forgotten slave trade; one which saw over a million Christians forced into captivity in the Muslim world. Starting with the practice of slavery in the ancient world, Simon Webb traces the history of slavery in Europe, showing that the numbers involved were vast and that the victims were often treated far more cruelly than black slaves in America and the Caribbean. Castration, used very occasionally against black slaves taken across the Atlantic, was routinely carried out on an industrial scale on European boys who were exported to Africa and the Middle East. Most people are aware that the English city of Bristol was a major center for the transatlantic slave trade in the eighteenth century, but hardly anyone knows that 1,000 years earlier it had been an important staging-post for the transfer of English slaves to Africa. Reading this book will forever change how you view the slave trade and show that many commonly held beliefs about this controversial subject are almost wholly inaccurate and mistaken.
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Download or read book Passages in the Life of a Galley slave written by Jean Marteilhe and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Travels Through the Southern Departments of France written by Aubin Louis Millin and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Huguenots and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes written by Henry M. Baird and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
