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AFter a summer of Black Lives Matter protests all over the world this novel starring a black slave owner was a bit of a shock (true story)

The founding of Marrakesh as the background of one of the best love stories I have ever read - the Moroccan empire series by Melissa Addey

Review of "On wilder seas" by Nikki Malmery - a young black slave woman with Sir Francis Drake around the world

Three novels following a workingclass family living in or near Cordoba in the haydays of the Caliphate when Spain was an Umayad Muslim Kingdom

"The Sultan’s Wife" - not a soppy romance story but a novel about an interesting time in Moroccan history

Moroccan 17th century history comes to life in a novel about the love of a eunuch for the wife of the sultan

Bookreview: "The tenth gift" A woman is abducted to become a slave in Morocco in the 16th century. In the 20th century a descendant retraces her story.

Review of "Barbary slave" by Robert Adams --- more interesting as a view into history of Algeria then for the heroes of the story

Her only friend there: an Arab tribal leader - review of The Bride Price by Karen Jones Delk

Enslaved by the Barbary Pirates - Review: The Selling of Kaelyn Sullivan by Marie Hunter