White slavery in the Barbary states

Abstract

He became in Spain what, in our day and country, is sometimes called an "Anti-Slavery Agitator" not by public meetings and addresses, but, ac- cording to the genius of the age, mainly through the instrumentality of the theatre.Not from the platform, but from the stage, did this liberated slave speak to the world.In a drama, entitled El Trato de Jlrgel^or Life in Algiers,which, though not composed according to the rules of art, yet found much favor, probably from its sub- ject,he pictured, shortly after his return to Spain, the manifold humiliations, pains, and tor- ments of slavery.This was followed by two others in the same spirit -La Gran Sultana Dona Cattalina de Oviedo, The Great Sultana the Lady Cattalina of Oviedo ; and Los Banos de Argel^ The Galleys of Algiers.The last act of the lat- ter closes with the statement, calculated to enlist the sympathies of an audience, that this play " is not drawn from the imagination, but was born far dred gold crowns of Spain, which, according to his Spanish biographer, Navarrete, is 6770 reals, {Vida de Cervantes y -p.371.)The real is supposed to be less than ten cents.

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