Slavery without redemption
Slavery without redemption
Editorial history
08/11/12: CSG, created page
Purpose of page
The MarineLives project is seeking to link and enhance HCA 13/71, not just to transcribe it.
White slavery is referred to occasionally in HCA 13/71, both in terms of fears of such an event, and actual experience of enslavement.
All associates, facilitators, advisors and PhD Forum members are encouraged to contribute to this page from their knowledge of the material, and from their broader knowledge and interest in the topic.
- What cases and depositions refer to white slavery, or enslavement by Barbary men of war?
- What can we learn in a factual sense from such references?
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Contents
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Voyage to the Canaries leading to seizure by Sally men of war and enslavement
- "the sayd shipp being departed from Roane and upon her voyage toward the Canries ˹with the sayd ladeing on board˺ was about the North Cape upon the coast of Portugall upon the high and upon sea shipp ˹both shee˺ and her sayd lading were surprized by Sally ˹there˺ men of warr who after this deponent had mainteyned sight with some see tenge as away as prize ˹to Sally˺ and deteyned the same ˹without any satisfaction made to the OcXXXer for XXXX as he knoweth˺ and carried away this deponent and all the sayd shipps company to Sally where they sold this deponent and the rest of the shipps company for slaves the truth hee deposeth for the reasons aforesayd"
- HCA 13/71 ff.505r-505v Case: A busines of Assurance touching a losse in the shipp the Blessing of London; Deposition: Joseph Soon of Saint Mary Magdalens Bermondsey Mariner Master of the shipp the Blessing of London aged thirty three yeares; Date: 27/02/1656 (1657)[2], [3]
- "the sayd Sallye men of warr tooke the sayd shipp the Blessing and all her ladeing and this deponent and the whole shipps company and carried them all to Sally and sold this deponent and the shipps company for slaves and made Prize of the sayd shipp and her ladeing without any recompense given to the Owner thereof"
- HCA 13/71 f.505v Case: A busines of Assurance touching a losse in the shipp the Blessing of London; Deposition: Joseph Soon of Saint Mary Magdalens Bermondsey Mariner Master of the shipp the Blessing of London aged thirty three yeares; Date: 27/02/1656 (1657)[4]
Thirty-three year old Bermondsey mariner Joseph Soon had been the Master of the Blessing on its failed voyage to the Canaries. Near the North Cape of Portugal the ship had been surprized by three Sally men of war. He and his company had been enslaved and the ship sold to Moors.
- "18. To the last hee saith that as hee was informed by some at Sally
19. (in the tyme hee this deponent was in Captivity there as a Slave) the sayd
20. shipp was sold to certayne Moores, but ˹for˺ what hee knoweth not, neither
21. can hee estimate the value of her or her ladeing aforesayd/
22. And further hee cannot depose/"
