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Author: Peter L Wilson

Edition: Autonomedia

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Section: Book Reviews

Subjects: Pirates

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From the 16th to the 19th centuries, Moslem corsairs from the Barbary Coast ravaged European shipping and enslaved thousands of unlucky captives. During this same period, thousands more Europeans converted to Islam and joined the pirate holy war. Were these men (and women) the scum of the seas, apostates, traitors – “Renegadoes”? Or did they abandon and betray Christendom as a praxis of social resistance? (Autonomedia)

Pirate Utopias : Moorish Corsairs and European Renegadoes

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