Barbary captivity imagery saturated 20th-century American pop culture far beyond real events

Evidence

The Barbary captivity scenario even provided adventures for Tom Swift and for the sharp-shooting cowboy Tom Mix, as well as sailing into the modern romance novel under such titles as Barbary Bride and Angelique in Barbary. Barbary slave galleys were used to sell the Packard Custom Eight De Luxe automobile in the 1930s, and children could even play the “Pirates of the Barbary Coast” board game. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 592

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the sermonizer’s model of fabricated images saturating leisure — Barbary pirates sold cars and board games just as medieval monsters saturated religious art and cycle plays.
• CANDY: A 1930s Packard sold via Barbary slave galleys, and a kids’ board game about Barbary pirates — the light flicker of absurdity in an otherwise grim archive.