![]() Nabil Matar, “The Barbary Corsairs, King Charles I and the Civil War,” Seventeenth Century 16:2 (October 2001), 239-258. ![]() Murray, “From Baltimore to Barbary: The 1631 Sack of Baltimore,” History Ireland 14:4 (July/August 2006). Sir Robert Lambert Playfair, The Scourge of Christendom: Annals of British Relations With Algiers Prior to the French Conquest, 1884. Hebb, Piracy and the English Government 1616–1642: Policy-Making Under the Early Stuarts, 2016. Nabil Matar, British Captives From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, 2014.ĭavid D. Sources for our feature on the sack of Baltimore:ĭes Ekin, The Stolen Village: Baltimore and the Barbary Pirates, 2012. In 1955, test pilot Alvin Johnston put an airliner through a barrel roll. In 1999, inventor Allison Andrews proposed dividing all our pants in half. We’ll also save the Tower of London and puzzle over a controversial number. ![]() ![]() In this week’s episode of the Futility Closet podcast we’ll describe the sack of Baltimore and the new life that awaited the captives in North Africa. One night in 1631, pirates from the Barbary coast stole ashore at the little Irish village of Baltimore and abducted 107 people to a life of slavery in Algiers - a rare instance of African raiders seizing white slaves from the British Isles. ![]()
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