| Description |
1 online resource (xxxv, 202 pages). |
| Series |
Subterranean lives
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Subterranean lives.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-202). |
| Contents |
Introductory remarks -- Commencement of service -- A sketch of biography -- Suicide attempted -- Embarkation-celebration of independence-exemplary punishment, & c -- A voyage -- Exercising ship -- Remarks on Dr. Cowdery's journal -- A petition -- Commodore Preble's engagement with the Tripolitans -- Elegy -- Description of the place -- Manners, customs, &c. of the Tripolitans -- Public transactions of the United States with the regency of Tripoli; including General Eaton's expedition -- Sketch of General Eaton's expedition -- Return home. |
| Summary |
Barbary pirates in Africa targeted sailors for centuries, often taking slaves and demanding ransoms in exchange. First published in 1808, Horrors of Slavery is the tale of one such sailor, captured during the United Statess first military encounter with the Islamic world, the Tripolitan War. William Ray, along with three hundred crewmates, spent nineteen months in captivity after his ship, the Philadelphia, ran aground in the harbor of Tripoli. Imprisoned, Ray witnessedand chronicledmany of the key moments of the military engagement. In addition to offering a compelling history of a little- |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ray, William, 1771-1827.
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United States. Navy -- History -- Tripolitan War, 1801-1805 -- Personal narratives.
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Philadelphia (Frigate)
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Ray, William, 1771-1827. |
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United States. Navy -- Personal narratives -- History -- Tripolitan War, 1801-1805. |
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Philadelphia (Frigate) -- Personal narratives -- History -- Tripolitan War, 1801-1805. |
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Ray, William, 1771-1827. |
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Philadelphia (Frigate) |
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United States. Navy. |
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Slavery -- Africa, North.
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| Chronological Term |
1801-1805 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History
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Personal narratives
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| Added Author |
Blum, Hester.
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| Added Title |
Horrors of slavery |
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American tars in Tripoli |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Ray, William, 1771-1827. Horrors of slavery, or, the American tars in Tripoli. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2008 9780813544120 0813544122 (DLC) 2008007763 (OCoLC)212893544 |
| ISBN |
9780813545677 (electronic bk.) |
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0813545676 (electronic bk.) |
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0813544122 |
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0813544130 |
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9780813544120 |
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9780813544137 |
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