Thomas Pellow

Thomas Pellow (* 1704 in Cornwall ; †) was an Englishman who, as a "white man", spent almost 23 years as a slave in northern Africa .

Life

Pellow was captured by corsairs in 1716 at the age of eleven, along with 51 other people who traveled with the ship "Francis" . Then he had to build under Mulai Ismail on his palace in Meknes .

In 1738, with the help of an Irish captain, he managed to escape across the Strait of Gibraltar to Penryn , Cornwall.

memoirs

• The History of the long captivity and adventures of Thomas Pellow, in South Barbary. Giving an account of his being taken by two Sallee Rovers ... in which is introduced a particular account of the manners and customs of the Moors ... together with a description of the cities, towns, and publick buildings in those kingdoms. R. Goadby, London 1739. New edition: The History of the long captivity and adventures of Thomas Pellow, in South-Barbary. Edited by Josephine Grieder. Garland, New York et al. a. 1973, ISBN 0-8240-0583-X . (Digitized: [1] )

literature

• Giles Milton : White gold. The extraordinary story of Thomas Pellow and the fate of white slaves in Africa. Translated from English by Stephan Gebauer. Theiss, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-8062-2247-0 .
• Jacques Heers: The Barbary Corsairs. Warfare in the Mediterranean, 1480-1580. Translated from the French by Jonathan North. Greenhill, London et al. a. 2003, ISBN 1-85367-552-0 .
• Peter Lamborn Wilson: Pirate Utopias. Moorish Corsairs & European Renegadoes. 2nd, revised edition. Autonomedia, New York 2003, ISBN 1-57027-158-5 .

Web links

• Thomas Pellow, a Christian slave of Muslims

Individual evidence

1. ^ Giles Milton. White gold. The extraordinary story of Thomas Pellow and the fate of white slaves in Africa. Stuttgart 2010.
2. ^ Thomas Pellow, a Christian slave of Muslims.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.