1820 Eliza Bradley 1ed Shipwreck AFRICA PIRATES Morocco Torture Slavery Voyages

1820 Eliza Bradley 1^ed Shipwreck AFRICA PIRATES Morocco Torture Slavery Voyages

In 1818, Captain James Bradley commanded his ship the Sally toward the North African coast, near Morocco and Algiers. The ship was wrecked, and Bradley’s wife Eliza was taken captive by local tribes and pirates. She was sold into slavery, tortured, exposed to malnutrition, and was abused by her African captors.

The events of her enslavement, and eventual rescue, were published in the 1820 book “Authentic Narrative of the Shipwreck and Sufferings of Mrs. Eliza Bradley”. This work not only provides first-hand accounts of the story but also early 19^th-century descriptions of the Sahara Desert, Berber Arabs, and the rampant piracy occurring off the coasts of Africa in the early 19^th-century.

This 1820 first edition of Eliza’s story was published in Boston by James Walden and includes full-page illustrations.

Item number: #26986

Price: $499

BRADLEY, Eliza

An authentic narrative of the shipwreck and sufferings of Mrs. Eliza Bradley, : the wife of Capt. James Bradley, of Liverpool

Boston: Printed by James Walden, 1820. First edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • 108
  • Folding frontispiece present but damaged in bottom left quadrant
• Provenance: Handwritten – Joseph Chase, 1827
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~7in X 4.5in (17.5cm x 11cm)

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