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                       Maria ter Meteelen was a working class Dutch woman, captured by corsairs out of one of the North African pirate strongholds and, like so many thousands of European travellers, enslaved. The Plague at Meknès Meanwhile the plague broke out on the 13th of June in the year 1742. Every day it killed 100 peopleContinue reading “A Redeemed Slave Waits to Go Home – 1742 A.D.”