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Michael Wonio
, September 01, 2011
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Not your kids' hollywoodized Caribbean pirates! Moorish, and renegade European, corsairs haunted the Mediterranean from the 16th to 19th century, taking prisoners for slaves and for ransoms. After the battle of Lepanto, Cervantes himself was captured and enslaved until ransomed years later. Wilson uses this epoch to develop a thesis concerning "insurrectionary communities".
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