Read an excerpt from An American Slave in Barbary: The Odyssey of Winston Prescott Jones by Larry Kelley An American Slave in Barbary: The Odyssey of Winston Prescott Jones By Larry Kelley Publication Date: December 11th, 2025 Publisher: Histori...

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I’m welcoming An American Slave in Barbary – The Odyssey of Winston Prescott Jones by Larry Kelley to the blog Here’s an excerpt from An American Slave in Barbary Now, as the sun lowered in its westward descent toward the Atlantic, my thirst and my need to know if my brother might have survived left me no choice.  I walked out the dunes, across the flat beach, down onto damp sand that descended at a steep angle into the surf.  Without worrying if anyone could see me, I made my way toward Sale. I reasoned that unless, by an unlikely twist of fate, I was found by some friendly villager who wished to take me in and hide me, I would turn myself over to the mercies of the Moroccan authorities of Sale and or their agents, in exchange for a cup of water. As I reached the portion of the beach near the outskirts of the city, two natives in a horse-drawn cart rode toward me near the waterline. The cart held an unarmed man driving and, next to him, a man armed with a scimitar, pistol, and ammunition belts strapped across his torso.  The cart stopped abruptly in front of me.  The armed man leaped out of the cart and ran toward me with his sword drawn, pointing at me. “Infidel, don’t move! Come here,” he yelled at me in Arabic as he motioned that I move toward the back of his cart.   As he led me there, I saw in the rear bed two of my shipmates and close friends, Moore and Etheredge. “Jones!” they cried in unison. As I climbed into the back of the cart, they reached out their hands to mine with tears welling up in their eyes.   My new jailor was remarkably a man I recognized as one who boarded our ship when we were captured in the Mediterranean and was among the pirates who sailed it off into the storm.  As he ran a chain through the ring in my ankle iron, which I still wore from our original capture, I said, “Lads, do you know if my brother, Robbie, made it ashore?” Their looks told me what I feared had to be true.  They shook their heads while looking down at the floor of the cart. Here’s the blurb An American Slave in Barbary: The Odyssey of Winston Prescott Jones is the story of a first-generation American student whose commercial ship is captured in the summer of 1801 by Moslem pirates. He spends the next sixteen years as a captive in Algiers. 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 they intended to rule themselves.   In the genre created by Homer, it is a tale of suffering, sin, and redemption, and a young man’s epic journey to regain his freedom.   Purchase Link https://geni.us/cgYHz Meet the author Larry Kelley’s life was changed by 9/11. He desperately wanted to find out who these people were who attacked us, what ordinary citizens could do to join the battle, and how those plotting to kill us in future attacks could be defeated.   Kelley has written scores of columns on the dangers of Western complacency. In his tenure as a political commentary writer, he has made a significant impact. His feature articles have appeared in the Piedmont Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, Human Events, and Townhall Magazine. Two of his articles were featured on the cover of Townhall Magazine.   His first book, Lessons from Fallen Civilizations, is the result of ten years of research. And received critical praise as a saga that begins on the plain of Marathon in 490 BC and whose main character is Western Civilization. https://www.larrykelley.com Facebook Amazon X Goodreads Follow the An American Slave in Barbary by Larry Kelley blog tour with The Coffee Pot Book Club Posts Stay up to date with the latest from the blog. I’m welcoming An American Slave in Barbary – The Odyssey of Winston Prescott Jones by Larry Kelley to the blog #HistoricalFiction #BarbaryCoast #SlaveTrade #AmericanRevolution #BlogTour #TheCoffeePotBookClub American History · Blog Tour · Coffee Pot Book Club · historical fiction · New Release I’m welcoming Rebecca Langston-George to the blog, with her new book, One Fine Voice  #OneFineVoice #HistoricalFiction #MiddleGrade #BlogTour #TheCoffeePotBookClub American History · Blog Tour · Coffee Pot Book Club · historical fiction · New Release Today I’m reviewing Kelly Oliver’s fabulous new Golden-Age crime mystery, The Case of the Christie Curse #newrelease #cosycrime #blogtour Blog Tour · Boldwood Books · book review · historical fiction · murder mystery · New Release · writing I’m delighted to welcome The Silent Resistance by Anna Normann to the blog, with a fascinating extract #BlogTour #NewReleaseBook #WW2 historical fiction · New Release · Rachel’s Random Resources · WW2

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Barbary Coast, aka Port Of Wickedness (1935) While putting together my review of Herbert Asbury’s book exploring early San Francisco’s ‘Barbary Coast’ district I discovered that, much like his earlier book The Gangs Of New York, it had also i…

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#CriterionChannel is featuring Howard Hawks this month including #BarbaryCoast which I'm watching for the first time. The irritation Miriam Hopkins arouses in me is being robustly counterbalanced by a young Joel McCrea...

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Happy birthday Rosemary Forsyth, born July 6, 1943.
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Okay but WHY IS TIMOTHY FUCKING ALIVE AND WHAT THE FUCK CASSANDRA???? Deep is so fucking pathetic in so many ways and everyone around him takes FULL advantage.😬 #BarbaryCoast #TheBoys

The little pause and eyebrow twitchies after he said the mean thing to Ryan.🥺 #BarbaryCoast #TheBoys

The casting for the younger Grace was REALLY fucking good, damn…. #BarbaryCoast #TheBoys

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