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Thread #62934   Message #1019464
Posted By: ard mhacha
15-Sep-03 - 05:26 PM
Thread Name: Songs for white slaves?
Subject: RE: Songs for white slaves?
A good read on this particular subject is, Piracy, Slavery and Redemption, Barbary captivity narritives from early modern England.
Selected and edited by Daniel L Vitkus. I got my copy at Amazon.

Another piece on the Baltimore incident,
Baltimore in 1631 was an English settlement founded by Thomas Crooke in 1607.
Early one morning in 1631, two barbary Corsairs arrived in Baltimore Harbour under the command of Captain Matthew Rice a Dutch renegade.

They plundered and pillaged and caused general mayhem and departed that afternoon loaded with booty and 119 captives, most of the captives were English. Some 15 years later the English sent a Mr Cason to reedeem captives from raids around the coast of England.
Two of those reedemed were Baltimore captives.

Following the the sack of Baltimore, the English built a number of protective beacons around the coast, the English settlers later moved upriver from Baltimore founding the town of Skibereen. Ard Mhacha.