White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islam's One Million White Slaves

Giles Milton's White Gold tells the true story of white European slaves in eighteenth century Algiers, Tunis, and Morocco.

An elegantly discursive retelling . . . customarily elegant prose. --Simon Winchester, The Boston Globe

In the summer of 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow and fifty-one of his comrades were captured at sea by Barbary corsairs. Their captors--Ali Hakem and his network of Islamic slave traders--had declared war on the whole of Christendom. Pellow and his shipmates were bought by the tyrannical sultan of Morocco. Drawn from the unpublished letters and manuscripts of Pellow and survivors like him, Giles Milton's White Gold is a fascinating glimpse at a time long forgotten by history.

Author: Giles Milton
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 03/09/2021
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781250778239
ISBN10: 1250778239
BISAC Categories:
- History | Africa | North
- Social Science | Slavery
- History | Europe | General

About the Author
Giles Milton is the internationally bestselling author of over ten works of narrative history published in twenty-five languages, including Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die: How the Allies Won on D-Day; Samurai William; Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare; and Nathaniel's Nutmeg, serialized by the BBC. He lives in London and Burgundy.