English Slave

English Slave Based on historical events, this first novel in the EMPIRES AND KINGDOMS renaissance series tells th All she must do is contact his family and ask for it.

The English Slave, a historical novel by David Eugene Andrews, solves a 400 year-old mystery. Who was beautiful Turkish noblewoman who received Captain John Smith as a slave? Based on Smith’s memoirs, this true story reveals the early life of Captain John Smith. While fighting for the Holy Roman Empire in Eastern Europe, Captain John Smith is sorely wounded on the battlefield and sold into slavery

at a Danube border town. Grand Vizier Hasan the Fruiterer, commands all Ottoman forces in Europe, purchases the recovering captain and sends him in chains to Aisha, the Sister of the Sultan and his bride-to-be. Aisha lives at her palace in Stamboul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire. Her brother is Sultan Mehmet III, the monarch of the most powerful empire in the world, but it is her mother Safiye Valide Sultana who runs the empire through two eunuchs. Chief White Eu**ch Gazanfer Agha is her son's closest advisor, while Chief Black Eu**ch Osman Kislar Agha runs the Imperial Harem. Grand Vizier Hasan the Fruiterer writes and tells his betrothed that he beat Smith on the battlefield. Her new slave is rich from the Kingdom of Bohemia, but Aisha can keep the whole ransom for herself. Like her mother Safiye Valide Sultana, Aisha speaks Italian. When the Sister of the Sultan brings her slave into her court, she quickly discovers her new slave speaks Italian, too. She also learns that Capitano John Smith is no ordinary slave. When she recounts how her betrothed beat him on the battlefield and that she must find his family in Bohemia in order to collect her handsome ransom, Captain John Smith vehemently protests, for the recovering capitano is no ordinary captain. Smith tells Aisha that no one has ever defeated him in single combat and that he is not Bohemian, but English. And his rich attire? The English Captain earned everything through his own talents and abilities. Upset at his bold claims, Aisha sends him back to his quarters. The beautiful noblewoman faces a dilemma: if the Capitano’s words are true, then her fiancé lied to her. What will Aisha do? The Sister of the Sultan decides she must discover the truth about Captain John Smith and the man she is destined to marry. Each week, while her mother goes to the baths or visits the grave of her father, Aisha brings her English, Dutch, French and Italian translator friends into her home. Each week her English slave tells more of his story of adventure. The English Slave is an epic story of love and war, rebellion and power, religion and beauty. To view a sample chapter click on:
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While Captain John Smith was held as an English slave inside the Ottoman Empire, Queen Elizabeth passed away at Richmond...
11/09/2022

While Captain John Smith was held as an English slave inside the Ottoman Empire, Queen Elizabeth passed away at Richmond Palace overlooking the Thames. A month later, her sealed, lead coffin was transported from Whitehall Palace via carriage to Westminster Abbey.

Queen Elizabeth of England Funeral Procession held on 28 April 1603.

The chronicler relates:

"Westminster was surcharged with multitudes of all sorts of people in their streets, houses, windows, leads and gutters, that came out to see the obsequy, and when they beheld her statue lying upon the coffin, there was such a general sighing, groaning and weeping as the like hath not been seen or known in the memory of man."

Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants thereof Lev. XXV X
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Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants thereof Lev. XXV X

Aptly called THE LIBERTY BELL, this bell in Philadelphia has a Bible verse from Leviticus 25:10 inscribed about its top:

"Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants thereof Lev. XXV X"

The Society of Friends (Quakers), seeking the Lord's will, became the first group in Pennsylvania to actively call for the abolition of slavery.

Beginning in the 1830s, abolitionist pamphleteers in New York and Boston began using THE LIBERTY BELL as a symbol of freedom in print, in articles, and in poems.

Seeking adventure abroad, young John Smith travelled to Orleans in France during the mid-to-late 1590s.Learn more about ...
18/04/2022

Seeking adventure abroad, young John Smith travelled to Orleans in France during the mid-to-late 1590s.

Learn more about John's early travels in The English Slave, the first book of the Empires and Kingdoms historical fiction series.

Aisha, Sister of the Sultan, received Captain John Smith as her slave at The Palace of Ibrahim Pasha, where The Turkish ...
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Aisha, Sister of the Sultan, received Captain John Smith as her slave at The Palace of Ibrahim Pasha, where The Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum in Istanbul now stands.

Kingdom of France album from Empires and Kingdoms
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Kingdom of France album from Empires and Kingdoms

King Clovis I, who became a Christian at the urging of his wife Clotilde, united the Franks at the beginning of the sixth century AD.

After the Charlemagne died, the Holy Roman Empire was divided among his sons. Charles the Bald ruled West Francia that eventually became the Kingdom of France.

Before he was assassinated in AD 1610, King Henry IV, also known as Henry le Grand, united France. Empires and Kingdoms addresses the important Siege of Amiens in AD 1597, when Queen Elizabeth aided the French monarch after Amiens, the gateway to Paris, fell by deceit.

Coronation Procession of Anne Boleyn to Westminster Abbey in 1533.
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Coronation Procession of Anne Boleyn to Westminster Abbey in 1533.

Anne Boleyn, the daughter of Thomas Boleyn and Lady Elizabeth Howard, was excommunicated by Pope Clement VII after her m...
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Anne Boleyn, the daughter of Thomas Boleyn and Lady Elizabeth Howard, was excommunicated by Pope Clement VII after her marriage to King Henry VIII. This marriage led to a split of the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church.

After giving birth to Elizabeth, who would one day become Queen, Anne Boleyn was charged with treason and beheaded. She soon became venerated as a martyr in the Protestant cause.

Have you checked out the San Francisco Book Review of Empires and Kingdoms: The English Slave?
16/03/2020

Have you checked out the San Francisco Book Review of Empires and Kingdoms: The English Slave?

Andrews’ The English Slave tells a dark and exciting segment of John Smith’s life that isn’t in the standard school textbooks. Hearing the name ‘John Smith’ probably conjures Jamestown and the oft erroneous and romanticised story of Pocahontas. It probably doesn’t conjure the Ottoman Emp...

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Joan of Arc in 1429 in Orleans, France, a town later visited by John Smith seeking adventure in Empires and Kingdoms: Th...
16/03/2020

Joan of Arc in 1429 in Orleans, France, a town later visited by John Smith seeking adventure in Empires and Kingdoms: The English Slave

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Author David Eugene Andrews tells the true story of how Captain John Smith became a slave. He reveals the identity of the Turkish officer (Yemisci Hasan Pasha) who purchased Smith at a border town on the lower Danube, and the beautiful Turkish noblewoman (Aisha Sultana) who received her new English slave in chains--a gift she could sell for a ransom. Her palace faced the Hippodrome in Constantinople, called Stamboul, present day Istanbul.

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