Horrors of Slavery - Or, the American Tars in Tripoli

Informationen zum Autor HESTER BLUM is an assistant professor of English at Penn State University. She is the author of The View from the Masthead: Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives Klappentext First published in 1808, Horrors of Slavery is the tale of a sailor, captured during the United States's first military encounter with the Islamic world, the Tripolitan War. William Ray, along with three hundred crewmates, spent nineteen months in captivity after his ship, the Philadelphia, ran aground in the harbor of Tripoli. Imprisoned, Ray witnessed--and chronicled--many of the key moments of the military engagement. Zusammenfassung Tells the tale of a sailor! captured during the United States' first military encounter with the Islamic world! the Tripolitan War. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction Chronology A Note on the TextHorrors of Slavery; or, The American Tars in Tripoli Exordium I. Introductory Remarks II. Commencement of Service III. A Sketch of Biography IV. Suicide Attempted V. Embarkation-Celebration of Independence-Exemplary Punishment, &c. VI. A Voyage VII. Exercising Ship VIII. Remarks on Dr. Cowdery's Journal IX. A Petition X. Commodore Preble's Engagement with the Tripolitans XI. Elegy XII. Description of the Place XIII. Manners, Customs &c. of the Tripolitans XIV. Public Transactions of the United States with the Regency of Tripoli; Including General Eaton's Expedition XV. Sketch of General Eaton's Expedition XVI. Return Home Poetry, Published in The Albany Register, during the summer of 1807 Explanatory Notes Further Reading

Product details

• Authors: William Ray, William/ Blum Ray
• Assisted by: Hester Blum (Editor)
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.09.2008
• EAN: 9780813544137
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-4413-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Subterranean Lives (Paperback); Subterranean Lives Series; Subterranean Lives Series; Subterranean Lives; Subterranean Lives (Paperback)
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, HISTORY / United States / General, Biography / Autobiography