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The Stolen Village: Baltimore and the Barbary Pirates (Paperback)

by Des Ekin (Author)
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  • Paperback: 408 pages
  • Publisher: O'Brien Press Ltd; (reprint). edition (11 Aug 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0862789559
  • ISBN-13: 978-0862789558
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.7 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 271,102 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The Irish Times
'An enthralling read, not simply for the story of the raid itself, which Ekin recreates with bloodcurdling vividness, but for the parallels the author draws with the current geo-political situation'

Irish Examiner
'Wonderfully interesting . . . A labour of love is how the author describes it, and after 350 easily read pages, it's well worth the journey'

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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing piece of forgotton history, 2 Oct 2008
By Marie Tuttle (Limerick, Ireland) - See all my reviews
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This is an amazing book chronicalling a rarely spoken of history of white slavery. Although the writer focuses on the fates of the villagers of Baltimore his wide lens views the lives of many white English and European slaves and the decadent playground of North Africa with its fearsome pirate hordes.He paints a real breathing picture of the harems,jails, societies cities, and high seas of the time.I took this book on a holiday to Morocco enjoying the link geographically with the events in this book so perhaps I'm particular biased, but it was a fantastic read and I highly reccomend it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent History, 28 Feb 2009
By E. Moore (Glasgow UK) - See all my reviews
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A very fine book indeed on a topic of increasing interest and relevance - the slave trade driven by the Barbary Corsairs resulted in over a million Europeans being taken into slavery, from Iceland to Spain.

The question of of captives and identity is a tragic one. Women and children in particular suffered badly, but over the years return becomes almost impossible - this is the case the world over. An old Kiowa woman who died in the 1920s only found out weeks before she died that she was white - all of her real family had been butchered by the people she thought were her real family.

The author doesn't try to mitigate the horrors of this slave trade - of any slave trade - and its consequences.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating, 17 Jan 2009
By Nicholas Whyte (Oud Heverlee, Belgium) - See all my reviews
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On 20 June 1631, pirates from Algiers descended on Baltimore in County Cork and kidnapped over a hundred of its inhabitants, most of the population, bringing them back to Africa and selling them into slavery. Ekin describes this as "the most devastating invasion ever carried out by the forces of the Islamist jihad on Britain or Ireland", and while I regret that he asserts the jihadism of the pirates, who were clearly less interested in religion than, say, Sir Francis Drake or Oliver Cromwell, you can see what he means.

Yet in fact very little of this is quite as it seems. The leader of the pirates was a Dutch renegade whose sons settled in New Amsterdam (or as we now call it, New York), and whose descendants include, for instance, Caroline Kennedy. The kidnapped villagers were a small Calvinist colony in a hostile territory; Ekin makes a good case against a local Irish Catholic dignitary for having organised the pirates' raid in the first place, and makes it quite comprehensible that when the opportunity of ransom came aroud fifteen years later, only two of the hundred-plus former villagers of Baltimore chose to go home. Algiers had a decent health service, running water in the houses and a decent climate; Baltimore is still lacking in some of these respects and certainly lacked all of them in the seventeenth century.

Ekin is a journalist rather than a historian, and has got perhaps a bit carried away by his research into what life was like for the slaves of Algiers, his description of which occupies most of the book. (Having said that, his attitude is properly sceptical and his documentation scrupulous; my criticism is of his structure, not his methods.) He also doesn't appear to have visited Algiers personally, which is not a criticism, it's just a shame that he doesn't give us the benefit of today's perspective.

Even so, the story is a fascinating insight into the world of seventeenth-century maritime commerce linked by the Atlantic Ocean: New Amsterdam at one end, Don Quixote and Zoraida at the other. The fact that Algiers and New Amsterdam were such cosmopolitan places, with people moving pretty freely between them and Western Europe, makes it rather difficult to justify describing one city as "Islamic" or indeed the other as "Christian". (And makes his choice of words to describe the raid even more regrettable.)

Anyway, fascinating stuff.
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