item: #1 of 10 id: A04907 author: Knight, Francis. title: A relation of seaven yeares slaverie under the Turkes of Argeire, suffered by an English captive merchant Wherein is also conteined all memorable passages, fights, and accidents, which happined in that citie, and at sea with their shippes and gallies during that time. Together with a description of the sufferings of the miserable captives under that mercilesse tyrannie. Whereunto is added a second booke conteining a discription of Argeire, with its originall, manner of government, increase, and present flourishing estate. By Francis Knight. date: 1640 words: 22692 flesch: 40 summary: Mustapha returnes with this answer , that if they would come forth they should bee most welcome , and couragiously received , but to their owne perills ; and that if it fortuned they to carry him , he must have patience : but if it fortune he to carry them , as he hoped in the mercy of Jesus and the vertue of their patron S. Marke he should , they must have the like ; he also saw the Venetians well armed , and having delivered this answer to Ally hee is not a little perplexed ; the Venetian on their parts as vigellent as the Turke , had there especially some Turkes , others Albinesses , and Iewes of the countrey , by whom hee got daily information of the Turkes proceedings , excellently well playd on their parts ; they imployed Turkes averse in religion and condition to the Christians , who without suspition every day eate and dranke with the enemy : Consequently the better able to informe the Albinesses and Iewes they imployed to accuse the validitie or invaliditie of the Turkes , reports the Venetian conformable to good intelligence , ordereth his Armatha , the Gallyasses were placed where the Turkes must passe , if they attempted it ; and every night having their Frigats and Boats which came under the Castle walls , and to the very Prowes of the Gallies which so daunted the Turkes that they now utterly dissisted from their resolution of combate , and all amort are devising a new way to secure the Slaves , if the Venetian should land his Forces , and ayme to fetch them off by force : 500. of us were put into a Tower in the Castle ; all lying 10. and 10. in chaines , a place as darke as Pitch , and a foot thicke in dust , but it s now seven weekes since the arrivall of the Venetian Armatha in this Port , and their Gally sent to Venice for further order is returned , the Prince and Sinod authenticats Marine Capellas doings , that what his excellence should doe , should bee well done , nor does hee omit any time to illustrate his zeale to the divine majestie and valour to ruenate so many miscrante enemies to the faith of Christ : who as breake of day commences a second battaile with thundering off great Ordnance , and vallies of small Shot ; for although the Venetians carries not so many Souldiers in their Gallies as the Turke does , yet have they this advantage of them , that upon any occasion they arme their Bonavollies and condemned men , who upon promise of libertie or other reward will fight bravely ; the Turke leaves their Gallies and runnes into the Castle , Christians they force to be Gunners , the two Galliasses with 4. other smaller Gallies , batters that Castle whilest the others board the Turkish Gallies , lay their fasts to them , and roaes them away ; thus Nobly did the Venetian end this fight in lesse than an houre , to their glory and the infamie of the Barberiscos : great murmerings were now amongst the Turkes against Ally their Generall , who has no other way to escape their furie and revenge , but by open handed liberalitie , wherein he promised to relieve the Souldiers present necessitie : men , chiefest in the Citie for esteeme ; in that they were descended from the ancient Turkes , which conquered that country , and in substance the richest hope is of that noble and couragions facultie that it commonly brings more then it carries away . keywords: argiere; castle; christians; citie; councell; day; dayes; doe; duana; english; french; gallies; generall; god; goe; great; hath; hee; like; man; men; nation; ordnance; peeces; people; place; port; present; sea; slaves; souldiers; time; turkes; way; yeares cache: A04907.xml plain text: A04907.txt item: #2 of 10 id: A25743 author: Aranda, Emanuel d', b. 1602. title: The history of Algiers and it's slavery with many remarkable particularities of Africk / written by the Sieur Emanuel D'Aranda, sometime a slave there ; English'd by John Davies ... date: 1666 words: 78723 flesch: 65 summary: The odd traverses of Fortune that happen to Slaves p. 182 Rel. 28. There was distributed by the Bassa's order to every slave five Ell● of course cloath , to make a Shirt and a pair of Drawers ▪ such as are wor● in the Gallies . keywords: account; algiers; answer; ask'd; barberossa; bassa; bath; caloën; captain; ceuta; christian; city; country; day; days; french; friends; gallies; general; good; house; king; knight; liberty; man; master; men; mother; mustapha; new; order; patacoons; patron; pay; pegelin; person; place; reason; relation; religion; return; saldens; sea; set; ship; slaves; spain; thought; time; tituan; turkish; turks; way; woman; work; year; ● ● cache: A25743.xml plain text: A25743.txt item: #3 of 10 id: A27305 author: Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689. title: Oroonoko, or, The royal slave : a true history / by Mrs. A. Behn. date: 1688 words: 31408 flesch: 47 summary: And Imoinda , who saw with some Joy the Change in the Prince's Face , and found it in her own , strove to divert the King from beholding either , by a forc'd Caress , with which she met him ; which was a new Wound in the Heart of the poor dying Prince . Caesar assur'd him , he was proof against all the Charms of that Sex ; and that if he imagin'd his Heart cou'd be so perfidious to Love again , after Imoinda , he believ'd he shou'd tear it from his Bosom : They had no sooner spoke , but a little shock Dog , that Clemene had presented her , which she took great Delight in , ran out ; and she , not knowing any body was there , ran to get it in again , and bolted out on those who were just Speaking of her : keywords: 'em; caesar; captain; cou'd; country; day; death; english; eyes; good; heart; honour; imoinda; king; life; love; man; men; new; oroonoko; prince; shou'd; slaves; things; time; trefry; world; wou'd; young cache: A27305.xml plain text: A27305.txt item: #4 of 10 id: A29712 author: Brooks, Francis. title: Barbarian cruelty being a true history of the distressed condition of the Christian captives under the tyranny of Mully Ishmael, Emperor of Morocco, and King of Fez and Macqueness in Barbary : in which is likewise given a particular account of his late wars with the Algerines, the manner of his pirates taking the Christians and others, his breach of faith with Christian princes, a description of his castles and guards, and the places where he keeps his women, his slaves and negroes : with a particular relation of the dangerous escape of the author and two English men more from thence, after a miserable slavery of ten years / by Francis Brooks. date: 1693 words: 18343 flesch: 58 summary: Barbarian cruelty being a true history of the distressed condition of the Christian captives under the tyranny of Mully Ishmael, Emperor of Morocco, and King of Fez and Macqueness in Barbary : in which is likewise given a particular account of his late wars with the Algerines, the manner of his pirates taking the Christians and others, his breach of faith with Christian princes, a description of his castles and guards, and the places where he keeps his women, his slaves and negroes : with a particular relation of the dangerous escape of the author and two English men more from thence, after a miserable slavery of ten years / by Francis Brooks. Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 84:10) Barbarian cruelty being a true history of the distressed condition of the Christian captives under the tyranny of Mully Ishmael, Emperor of Morocco, and King of Fez and Macqueness in Barbary : in which is likewise given a particular account of his late wars with the Algerines, the manner of his pirates taking the Christians and others, his breach of faith with Christian princes, a description of his castles and guards, and the places where he keeps his women, his slaves and negroes : with a particular relation of the dangerous escape of the author and two English men more from thence, after a miserable slavery of ten years / by Francis Brooks. Brooks, Francis. keywords: christians; country; day; emperor; english; god; governour; king; macqueness; men; moors; mully; negroes; night; people; place; time; work cache: A29712.xml plain text: A29712.txt item: #5 of 10 id: A42950 author: Godwyn, Morgan, fl. 1685. title: The Revival, or, Directions for a sculpture describing the extraordinary care and diligence of our nation in publishing the faith among infidels in America and elsewhere compared with other both primitive and modern professors of Christianity. date: 1682 words: 1462 flesch: 63 summary: Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). EEBO-TCP is a partnership between the Universities of Michigan and Oxford and the publisher ProQuest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by ProQuest via their Early English Books Online (EEBO) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). keywords: eebo; english; tcp; text; write cache: A42950.xml plain text: A42950.txt item: #6 of 10 id: A42952 author: Godwyn, Morgan, fl. 1685. title: Trade preferr'd before religion and Christ made to give place to Mammon represented in a sermon relating to the plantations : first preached at Westminster-Abbey and afterwards in divers churches in London / by Morgan Godwyn ... date: 1685 words: 26661 flesch: 71 summary: And like a most religious Assertor , and zealous Patron of the Faith once delivered to the Saints ; Your Majesty declaring it most reasonable , that all Men should be made to partake of the Grace of God , so freely in Christ tendred unto them ; and that none should be debarred of the common Salvation , especially such who do so much hunger and thirst after it . But Your Majesty cannot but know how unworthy ( even at the best ) this Plea is of a Christian Nation : and withal , how incongruous and mean it is that for Trade ( even allowing the Pretence for good ) the Work of God should be destroyed ; and those Myriads of Souls be made to perish , for whom Christ died , no less than for the residue of Mankind . keywords: blood; chap; christianity; church; doth; god; good; hath; life; lord; majesty; man; men; people; place; prophet; religion; saith; sin; souls; text; thing; tho; time; vers; work cache: A42952.xml plain text: A42952.txt item: #7 of 10 id: A47141 author: Keith, George, 1639?-1716. title: An exhortation & caution to Friends concerning buying or keeping of Negroes date: 1693 words: 2578 flesch: 60 summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 95821) keywords: bondage; christ; eebo; negroes; tcp; text cache: A47141.xml plain text: A47141.txt item: #8 of 10 id: A53252 author: Deane, James. title: Eben-ezer, or, A small monument of great mercy appearing in the miraculous deliverance of William Okeley, Williams Adams [brace] John Anthony, John Jephs, John ----, carpenter, from the miserable slavery of Algiers, with the wonderful means of their escape in a boat of canvas ... / by me William Okeley. date: 1684 words: 32576 flesch: 54 summary: I confess , for a Goal , it 's one of the best Built that I have seen ; there 's nothing that the Soul of Man bears with more regret than Restraint : The Body it self is judged by some to be but the Soul's Little-ease , or Cage ; where though it seems to Dwell , yet 't is but in Honourable Durance ; and though it dares not break the Prison , yet it listens ; and longs for a Goal-Delivery : There can be nothing large enough for a Soul but God , from whom since it once at first came , it must needs be restless till it return to him again ; and surely it has much forgot it self , and extract , if it can take up with satisfaction in any thing on this side its Creator . 2006-09 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2006-09 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-06 Taryn Hakala Sampled and proofread 2008-06 Taryn Hakala Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion EBEN-EZER : OR , A SMALL MONUMENT OF GREAT MERCY , APPEARING IN THE Miraculous Deliverance OF William Okeley , Williams Adams , John Anthony , John Jephs , John — Carpenter , From the Miserable Slavery of ALGIERS , with the wonderful Means of their Escape in a Boat of Canvas ; the great Distress , and utmost Extremities which they endured at Sea for Six Days and Nights ; their safe Arrival at Mayork ; With several Matters of Remarque during their long Captivity , and the following Providences of God which brought them safe to ENGLAND . keywords: boat; canvas; city; day; design; english; escape; god; good; john; land; man; means; men; mercy; narrative; night; patron; place; providence; reader; saw; sea; sect; self; selves; set; ship; slaves; thee; things; thou; time; water; way; work; world cache: A53252.xml plain text: A53252.txt item: #9 of 10 id: A60965 author: Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689. Oroonoko. title: Oroonoko a tragedy, as it is acted at the Theatre-Royal by His Majesty's servants / written by Tho. Southerne. date: 1696 words: 363023 flesch: -53 summary: The rate of 3.97 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the B category of texts with fewer than 10 defects per 10,000 words. 2002-09 Assigned for keying and markup 2002-10 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2002-11 Sampled and proofread 2002-11 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2002-12 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

Oroonoko : A TRAGEDY As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal , By His MAJESTY'S SERVANTS .

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I. A brief treatise of the most principal fruits and herbs that grow in the East & West Indies; giving an account of their respective vertues both for food and physick, and what planet and sign they are under. Together with some directions for the preservation of health and life in those hot climates. II. The complaints of the negro-slaves against the hard usages and barbarous cruelties inflicted upon them. III. A discourse in way of dialogue, between an Ethiopean or negro-slave, and a Christian that was his master in America. By Philotheos Physiologus. date: 1684 words: 36504 flesch: 40 summary: Besides , People in hot Regions have not need of so many things , there is no occasion for their Houses being so close nor furnisht with so many Circumstances of Beds and Bedding , continual Fires , and the like Provisional Accommodations to be laid up before-hand , either for Man or Beast ; as also half the Clothing will furnish Nature ; and the same is to be understood of Foods ; for all things necessary to the Maintenance of Life are far easier , and with half the Labour procured in hot Countries . Therefore since we have obtained the favour to plead our own Cause , we will be bold to tell our Masters , that these things cannot be otherwise , it being the eternal Law of God in Nature , that whatever Evil , Violence or Oppression is committed , either by Superior or Inferior , if not repented of , there must be a time of Retaliation either in this World , or that to come , according to the Nature of the Evil ; for as there is such an Affinity between man and man , that they can move each other either to Love or Hate , so there is a proportionate Similitude between him and the Coelestial Bodies and Elements , Man being not only the Image and Likeness of God and Nature , but the Horizon of both Worlds , in whom the superior and inferior Natures are conjoyned , and have their Intercourse ; for he is the Off-spring of the Stars , as well as the Sun of the Earth . keywords: body; bread; christian; cold; contrary; country; drinks; evil; flesh; food; fruit; god; good; health; heat; labour; man; masters; men; nature; people; reason; religion; rest; selves; stomach; things; time; truth; use; work; world cache: A63791.xml plain text: A63791.txt