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Title: Wonderful story, A
Alternative Title: How a nest of pirates terrorized the world for centuries; how even the United States paid tribute to Algiers, and how at last the French nation broke the spell
Creator: Scripps, Ellen Browning, 1836-1932
Date Created and/or Issued: 1882-04-14
Publication Information: The Detroit Evening News
Ella Strong Denison Library; Claremont Colleges Digital Library
Contributing Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
Collection: Ellen Browning Scripps 1836-1932, Journalist, Humanitarian, Educator
Rights Information: For more information on copyright or permissions, please contact Ella Strong Denison Library at http://www.scrippscollege.edu/denison/
Description: Correspondence for the Detroit Evening News. Ellen Browning Scripps provides a history of piracy and Christian enslavement in Algeria, and French colonialism in the 19th century.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: ebs00018
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll3/id/138
Language: English
Subject: Barbarossa, d. 1546
Bainbridge, William, 1774-1833
Decatur, Stephen, 1779-1820
Pellew, Edward, Viscount Exmouth, 1757-1833
Dey of Algiers
Islam - Algeria - History - 9th century
French - Colonies - Algeria
Pirates - Algeria
Slavery - Africa, North - History
Treaty of Peace and Amity, Between the United States and Algiers (1795)
Place: Algiers (Algeria)
Source: Ellen Browning Scripps Collection, Detroit Evening News Travel Letters 1-20, Drawer 24, Folder 13
Relation: Travel letters
Ellen Browning Scripps 1836-1932, Journalist, Humanitarian, Educator - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll3

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