Napoleon's American Prisoners with Anne Morddel
Anne Morddel talks about the American sailors captured on the high seas by French ships during the Napoleonic Wars and what happened to them.
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Today’s special episode is an interview with Anne Morddel. Morddel has worked in libraries and archives across the world. She has written The French Genealogy Blog for more than fifteen years, producing nearly one thousand posts about the many aspects of French genealogical research. While researching in French archives she discovered records regarding 1500 American
merchant seamen held prisoner in Napoleonic France. Today we are discussing the culmination of that work, her recently-published book: Napoleon’s American Prisoners, which details the capture, imprisonment and freedom of these American sailors in France.
transcript forthcoming
Anne Morddel
Anne Morddel worked in libraries and archives in her native California, then in Europe, South America, the Middle East and Africa. She has written The French Genealogy Blog for more than fifteen years, producing nearly one thousand posts about the many aspects of French genealogical research. Researching in French archives led her to the discovery of some 1500 American merchant seamen held prisoner in Napoleonic France. Her book about them, Napoleon’s American Prisoners, is published by Boydell Press. It is available at the following link, where it also can be recommended to a library:
https://boydellandbrewer.com/book/napoleons-american-prisoners/
Her book American Merchant Seamen of the Early Nineteenth Century : a Researcher's Guide explains how to use libraries, archives and online databases around the world to document the lives of seamen who lived in the early 1800s. It may be found at the following link:
https://www.amazon.com/American-Merchant-Seamen-Nineteenth-Century/dp/B08LGB4GY9