Breaking the Chains: The Royal Navy's War on White Slavery

by Tom Pocock

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With potent echoes of the current War on Terror , this book tells how the leading Great Power of the 19th century organized a coalition to eradicate a deep-rooted aspect of anti-Western policy in Moslem countries. This confrontation between Europe and Islamic North Africa, and eventually the Ottoman Empire, concerned Christian slavery, a trade pursued by the piratical Barbary States. For centuries weaker trading nations had paid them protection money to leave their shipping alone, but the basic principle of slavery was unchallenged. With the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 this cause reached the top of the...Read more
  • ISBN10 1861762755
  • ISBN13 9781861762757
  • Publish Date 15 September 2006
  • Publish Status Transferred
  • Out of Print 15 June 2009
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Greenhill Books
  • Imprint Chatham Publishing
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 224
  • Language English