Germain Mouette is a French man who was sailing to the Americas when he was captured by the Salé pirates. During his eleven years of captivity in Morocco, Mouette learned a lot about the country, publishing a detailed map of the Kingdom in one of his chronicles.
Robert Purvis was one of the most committed American abolitionists in the nineteenth century. The activist drew strength from the story of his grandmother, a Moroccan woman who was enslaved and transported to the United States at the age of twelve.
During the 19th century, the North region of the United States fought against slavery and the states that wanted to maintain the practice. Denouncing the heinous system, American senator Charles Sumner compared slave-holding states to Morocco, where slavery was a common practice.
By the end of the 17th century, sultan Moulay Ismail decided to forcibly enslave all «blacks» in the Kingdom, including those who were free. Inspired by the Saadi dynasty, the sultan wanted to create an army based on slavery which angered Muslim scholars in Fez.
Captured and enslaved in Morocco, Robert Adams is the first American man to visit Timbuktu. His account was told in a narrative, published in 1816 in London.
Helen Gloag is a Scottish redhead beauty whose fate brought her to the Kingdom of Morocco in the 18th century. Daughter of a blacksmith, Helen was captured by Moroccan corsairs only to become later the empress of the North African empire and Sultan Mohamed ben Abdellah's favorite consort. History.
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