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By K. Bekkaoui
A desirable anthology of narratives from the interval 1735-1830, through ecu ladies who recount their enslavement in North Africa. the 1st such assortment, it contains an in depth creation which hyperlinks the discourse on modern Western ladies captives in Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq with that of former white captives in North Africa.
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Likewise, Eunice Barber in the Narrative of the Tragical Death of Darius Barberr (1818) tomahawks her master and runs away. The escape of American women was inspired and facilitated by the Indians’ open encampment, the relatively nearby presence of United States forts and cavalry, and the fact that these women were captured and enslaved in a land they were busy conquering and appropriating as their own homeland. Barbary slaves, on the contrary, found themselves in a totally different context: cut off from country and countrymen by a vast sea and confined in pens, harems, walled towns, or encampments deep in the impenetrable desert.
203 Though captivity narratives make frequent allusions to native women’s forwardness and flirtatiousness, rather than provoking abhorrence their rampant sexuality is blamed on polygamy and the sexual depravity of their old and profligate husbands who incarcerate their wives within harem walls, strictly guarded by terrible eunuchs, while they themselves indulge in forbidden pleasures. Cuckolding their husbands becomes emblematically a transgression against female servitude and Islamic moral codes as well as a challenge to sexual despotism.
109 Shrill appeals by discontented women continued well into the eighteenth century. 111 By contrast, there is no evidence that men who lost their spouses, daughters, or sisters to North Africans showed equal zeal for their liberation. Curiously enough, no mention is made to male petitioners on behalf of their womenfolk, and the state did not have any incentive for intervening on their behalf. 114 Unless the government acts quickly, he warns, more would be lost. Twelve years later, in 1645, the government eventually intervened.