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New Zealand author Summary: Set in Ireland in the 1600s, this book is about the white slave trade that went on on the Barbary Coast (which was the Northern Coast of Africa), at the same time as the slave trade of Negros to America. Over 1 million white Christians were captured by corsair pirates, and sold in slavery to Muslim masters in the Mediterranean. The pirates captured slaves from as far north as fishing villages in England and Ireland, and even from Iceland. This story is about 13-year-old Liam, whose life is changed because of these pirate raids. (Publisher)