Breaking The Chains: The Royal Navy's War On White Slavery

Naval Inst Press. Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket. 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. 159114048X . Brown hardcovers with gilt titles to the spine. A Fine+ book with a solid binding and a bright, unmarked interior. The DJ is in Fine+ condition. Maps and illustrations through the book with reference notes, bibliography and indexed. "With potent echoes of the current War on Terror, this book tells how the leading Great Power of the 19th century organized a coalition to eradicate a deep-rooted aspect of anti-Western policy in Moslem countries. This confrontation between Europe and Islamic North Africa, and eventually the Ottoman Empire, concerned Christian slavery, a trade pursued by the piratical Barbary States. For centuries weaker trading nations had paid them protection money to leave their shipping alone, but the basic principle of slavery was unchallenged. With the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 this cause reached the top of the political agenda and in 1816 a large Anglo-Dutch fleet attacked Algiers and forced the local ruler to release 3000 European slaves. This was the beginning of a concerted, and essentially naval, assault on the practice, which the Moslem world came to see as a religious and racist war, a revival of the crusades." ; 9.30 X 6.10 X 1 inches; 216 pages; Box 9 .