Christian and Negro slavery in eighteen-century North America

Slavery in eighteenth-century North Africa, as described in the literature of that era, is the main theme of this paper. However, as the eighteenth century gives an arbitrary division to our topic, the scope of this study has been enlarged. The account of Morocco begins with the reign of Mulay Ismail (1672-1727) and extends through that of Mulay Sliman (1792-1822). As conditions were much the same throughout both of these rulers? reigns, any division would be meaningless. The account of slavery in Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli has been extended in the same manner.