Most of the Barbary pirates were rogue Europeans who lost their letters of Marque. You have a lousy education.
It makes me laugh thinking what you just said. You are an Islamic terrorist apologist so of course you will make a bullshit outlandish claim that the Barbary Pirates were not Muslim. Ha ha ha. No idiot, today’s Palestinian terrorists are decedents of those same animals that attacked ships during a Jefferson’s time, in the name of Islam. And those animals were decedents of Mohammad and his followers about 1500 years ago, that raided and looted caravans during the so called holy month of Ramadan (when Muslims turn especially violent) and raped and mutilated the caravan passengers.
The
Barbary pirates,
Barbary corsairs, or
Ottoman corsairs were Muslim
pirates and
privateers who operated from the
Barbary states. The main purpose of their attacks was to capture
slaves for the
Barbary slave trade. Slaves in Barbary could be of many ethnicities, and of many different religions, such as Christian, Jewish, or Muslim. Their predation extended throughout the
Mediterranean, south along
West Africa's
Atlantic seaboard and into the North Atlantic as far north as
Iceland, but they primarily operated in the western Mediterranean. In addition to seizing
merchant ships, they engaged in
razzias, raids on European coastal towns and villages, mainly in Italy, France, Spain, and Portugal, but also in the British Isles, the Netherlands, and Iceland.
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Legacy
The history of Muslim enslavement of white Europeans has been cited by some as contextualising the importance of subsequent European and American enslavement of blacks. Scholar Robert Davis noted that the larger picture isn't so one-sided: during a "clash of empires... taking slaves was part of the conflict," and at the same time 2 million Europeans were enslaved by Muslims in North Africa and the Near East, 1 million Muslim slaves in Europe
On July 19, 1794, Congress appropriated $800,000 for the release of American prisoners and for a peace treaty with
Algiers,
Tunis, and
Tripoli. On September 5, 1795, American negotiator Joseph Donaldson signed a peace treaty with the Dey of Algiers, that included an upfront payment of $642,500 in specie (
silver coinage) for peace, the release of American captives, expenses, and various gifts for the Dey's royal court and family.[ An additional indefinite yearly tribute of $21,600 in shipbuilding supplies and ammunition would be given to the Dey.
The treaty, designed to prevent further piracy, resulted in the release of 115 American sailors held captive by the Day.
Number of people enslaved
According to Robert Davis, between 1 million and 1.25 million Europeans were captured by Barbary pirates and sold as slaves in
North Africa and
Ottoman Empire between the 16th and 19th centuries.[33][34] However, to extrapolate his numbers, Davis assumes the number of European slaves captured by Barbary pirates were constant for a 250-year period.
Famous Barbary corsairs (gee they’re all Muslim!)
