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A25743 The history of Algiers and it's slavery with many remarkable particularities of Africk / written by the Sieur Emanuel D'Aranda, sometime a slave there ; English'd by John Davies ...; Relation de la captivité du sieur Emanuel d'Aranda. English Aranda, Emanuel d', b. 1602.; Davies, John, 1625-1693. 1666 (1666) Wing A3595; ESTC R12929 153,439 290

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