The third portion of the book deals with slavery after that period and The most romantic of all the countless stories 1s perhaps the following in 1765 a Frenen ship outward bound io Martinique foundered in the Bay of Biscay, but her passengers and Crew were rescued by a Spanish ship. The Spaniard was than captured Barbary corsair, Among the passeng ers was a young lady of a French family of good standing. a contempory and school friend of the future Empress Josephine. A negro maid revealed her rank, whereon the pirate sent her to the suzerain, the Sultan whose favourite odalisque behind the veil she watched going up in flames before the 1 Bonaparte, who nad now married Josephine. Perhaps through her influence: Turkey. now, desi British alliance, came into the French orbit even efter Trafalgar! But by 1812 the French favourite had become Queen-Mother (Vi Sultana) and Teal power behind the throne. the civorcement of Jo phine, her influence was now the other She succeeded in in-sultan to make peace with f whose forces a large pro-had by a been mi itralized l'urkish army. Thus this released Russia force moved Napo-fast on leon's flank to turn his retreat to a Four-ore more example of th strange side-issues of a slave system.
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