L'esclave religieux, et ses avantures

A former captive offers a first-person testimony of long imprisonment under hostile masters, detailing hunger, beatings, forced labor, and the calculated use of violence, flattery, and rewards to force renunciation of Christian faith. The account emphasizes prisoner solidarity, the particular sufferings of children and women, and instances of steadfast belief and martyrlike endurance. It combines moral appeals to fellow Christians for ransom and relief with concrete descriptions of redemptions organized by religious benefactors. Interwoven episodes follow a young man raised in a governor's household who remains attached to Christian practice through the influence of an elderly captive, showing how personal ties intersect with systems of coercion and rescue.