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The Slaves’ Conspiracy of 1749 in 19 Historical Drawings
An overview of truly gruesome and eventful episodes in 18th-century Malta. Readers are transported through the 45-month saga which was triggered by the mutiny aboard the Lupa of Rhodes and its arrival in the grand harbour. The Order gladly embraced the uprisers, offered them protection and plied them with positions of trust. Notwithstanding, the political prisoner Mustafà Pasha, succeeded to rally behind him the greater part of the slave community in Malta, including Cara Mehmet, the leader of the mutiny of 1748. This plot was destined to fail, and the betrayal of the conspirators did not go unpunished. All perpetrators were subjected to brutal torture and many were butchered and cremated unceremoniously.
