Chapter 2
Crusoe is captured by a Salee rover and made slave; later escapes with Xury, the Moorish boy whom he eventually sells to the Portuguese captain for sixty pieces of eight.
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From Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Crusoe's enslavement by Moorish pirates and his subsequent escape with the boy Xury, whom he later sells, prefigures the colonial and slave-trading themes of the novel.
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