Monday, September 27, 2010

A forgotten slavery

The galleys, evoked by Dr. Beachcombing.

Image:  Spanish galleys fighting the Dutch, 1602.

2 comments:

judith weingarten said...

A clue, please, Steve: what have the last years of the Dutch revolt against Spain and the naval battles to do particularly with slavery?

Steve Muhlberger said...

1. This is about the best picture of galleys I could find.

2. I don't think that the rowers of Spanish galleys were free either.