Subject: corsair / slave raider
Culture: Maghribi Arab, Berber, renegade European
Setting: piracy, Mediterranean/Atlantic 18th-early 19thc
* USS Constitution
"'Chopping down the U.S. flagstaff and declaring the start of the Tripolitan War'
Reproduced from White Slavery in the Barbary States by Charles Sumner, 1853
This image shows the American flag lying on the ground after the flagpole had been cut down.
The act of chopping down the flagstaff was the traditional method of declaring war
in the Barbary States at the this time."
