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An American Slave in Barbary: The Confessions of Tyler Prescott Jones - a Homeric American historical novel

An American Slave in Barbary/The Confessions of Tyler Prescott Jones is the story of a first-generation American student whose commercial ship is captured in the summer of 1801 by Muslim pirates. He spends the next sixteen years as a captive in Algiers. There he rises to become a confidant to the Dey of Algiers who is desperate to know what made the American shopkeepers and farmers believe they could defeat the British war machine, and how did they intend to rule themselves. In the genre begun by Homer, it is a tale of suffering, sin and redemption and a young man's epic journey to regain his freedom.