White Gold: An Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow & North Africa's One Million European Slaves by Giles Milton Sri Lanka Wildlife inexorably crumbles

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White Gold: An Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow & North Africa's One Million European Slaves by Giles Milton Sri Lanka Wildlife inexorably crumblesIn 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 Captain Ali Hakem and his network of fanatical Islamic slave traders had declared war on the whole of Christendom. Poked, prodded and put through their paces at the great slave markets of Morocco, thousands of Europeans were sold to the highest bidder. Thomas Pellow was bought by the tyrannical sultan,