White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa’s One Million European Slaves

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That is the forgotten story of the million white Europeans, snatched from their homes and taken in chains to the great slave markets of North Africa to be sold to the easiest bidder. Ignored by their very own governments, and forced to endure the harshest of conditions, only a few lived to tell the tale.The use of the firsthand testimony of a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow, Giles Milton vividly reconstructs a disturbing, little known chapter of history. Pellow used to be bought by the tyrannical sultan of Morocco who used to be constructing an imperial pleasure palace of enormous scale and grandeur, built entirely by Christian slave labour. As his personal slave, he would witness first-hand the barbaric splendour of the imperial court, in addition to experience the day by day terror of a cruel regime.Gripping, immaculately researched, and brilliantly realised, WHITE GOLD reveals an explosive chapter of popular history, told with the entire pace and verve of one among our finest historians.

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