@article{310268,
      recid = {310268},
      author = {Milton, Giles.},
      title = {White gold : the extraordinary story of Thomas Pellow and  Islam's one million white slaves /},
      publisher = {Picador,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {xii, 316 p. :},
      year = {2006},
      note = {Originally published: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2004.},
      abstract = {This book reveals a disturbing and long forgotten chapter  of history. In 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas  Pellow and 51 comrades were captured at sea by the Barbary  corsairs. Their captors--a network of Muslim slave  traders--had declared war on Christendom. Thousands had  been snatched from their homes in France, Spain, England  and Italy and taken in chains to the great slave markets of  Algiers, Tunis and Sal ̌in Morocco. Pellow and his  shipmates were bought by the tyrannical sultan of Morocco,  who was constructing a palace of such grandeur that it  would surpass every other building in the world, built  entirely by Christian slave labor. Resourceful, resilient,  and quick-thinking, Pellow was selected by the sultan for  special treatment, and was one of the fortunate few who  survived to tell his tale.--From publisher description.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/310268},
}