Commerce and Sentiment in Tales of Barbary Encounter: Cathcart, Barlow, Markoe, Tyler, and Rowson
A number of American sailors were taken hostage by Barbary Corsairs and held as slaves in North Africa in the years following the Revolutionary War. The crisis would ultimately lead to open warfare, but many Americans were optimistic that international commerce and common sympathy might overcome re...
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European Association for American Studies
2014-09-01
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| Series: | European Journal of American Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/10358 |