On The Barbary States’ Captives And The American South’s Slavery In The Nineteenth Century

Résumé: The practice of slavery has always existed throughout the history of the world. During the nineteenth century, two kinds of slavery existed in two far away different parts of the world that could not be more different. This paper offers a comparison between too unlikely practices that could not be any more dissimilar, that of slavery in the American South and the slave captives in the Barbary regency of Algiers. The paper explores the history of the European and American enslaved captives in Algiers. It also presents a background of slavery in Islam and how it gradually forbade slavery. The paper further gives an account of slavery in the South taking Frederick Douglass’ bibliographic account as a reference in the comparison. Examining both types of slavery, we can see whether each form of slavery can permit some doors to freedom, and allow less suffering to the individual slaves or hence the captives.

Publié dans la revue: المجلة الجزائرية للأبحاث والدراسات