Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's One Million European Slaves Digital 12 April 2012 by Giles Milton (Author) 1,045 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 12.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 111.58 2 Used from 16.75 4 New from 72. Drawn from unpublished letters and manuscripts written by slaves and by the padres and ambassadors sent to free them, this shocking and extraordinary story reveals a disturbing and forgotten chapter of our history. He was one of the fortunate few who survived to tell his told. For 23 years, he would dream of his home, his family and freedom. Thomas Pellow was selected to be a personal slave of the sultan and he would witness first-hand the barbaric splendour of the imperial Moroccan court, as well as experience of daily terror. The sultan was constructing an imperial pleasure palace of enormous scale and grandeur, built entirely by Christian slave labour. Pellow was bought by the tyrannical sultan of Morocco, who bragged that his white slaves enabled him to hold all of Europe to ransom. Thousands of Europeans had been snatched from their homes and taken in chains to the great slave markets of Algiers, Tunis and Sale in Morocco to be sold to the highest bidder. Their captors - fanatical Islamic slave traders - had declared war on the whole of Christendom. In the summer of 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow and 52 of his comrades were captured at sea by the Barbary corsairs.

White Gold by Giles Milton