RT Article
T1 White Slaves, African Masters
JF The annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
VO 588
IS 1
SP 90
OP 104
A1 Baepler, Paul Michel
LA English
PB Sage Publ.
YR 2003
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1778951724
AB This article introduces narratives by American captives during and after the Barbary Wars (1801-1805, 1815). Set against a background of American imperial pursuits, the accounts reveal the hypocrisy and double-standards common among early Americans (who accepted black slavery in America but reacted strongly against the idea of white slaves in the custody of the North African Muslims). The accounts were largely works of fiction, but were accepted as fact. Arabs are presented as bizarre, gruesome, and primitive. The stories were sold by the thousands, so members of almost every household were exposed to these negative portrayals.
K1 Barbary captivity
K1 North African history
K1 eighteenth-and nineteenth-century America
K1 Narratives
K1 Race
K1 Slavery
K1 Stereotypes
DO 10.1177/0002716203588001007