White Slavery in the Barbary States

by Charles Sumner

[62] Gentleman's Mag. xviii. p. 413.

[63] Oronooko, act iii. sc. i. It is not strange that the anti-slavery character of this play rendered it an unpopular performance at Liverpool, while the prosperous merchants there were concerned in the slave trade.

[64] Don Quixote, part i. book iv. chap. 12.

[65] Osborne's Voyages, vol. ii. p. 500.

[66] Roscoe's Life of Cervantes, pp. 32, 310, 311. In the same spirit Thomas Phelps says: "I looked upon my condition as desperate; my forlorn and languishing state of life, without any hope of redemption, appeared far worse than the terrors of a most cruel death."—Osborne's Voyages, vol. ii. p. 504.

[67] British Annual Register, vol. vi. p. 60.

[68] El Trato de Argel.

[69] Roscoe's Life of Cervantes, pp. 31, 308, 309. I refer to Roscoe as the popular authority. His work appears to be little more than a compilation from Navarrete and Sismondi.

[70] Ibid. p. 33. See also Haedo, Historia de Argel, p. 185.

[71] Purchas's Pilgrims, vol. ii. p. 888.