Remembering the Barbary Slaves: White Slaves and North African Pirates.

[ShahdagMountains]

Much attention and condemnation has been directed towards the tragedy of the African slave trade, which took place between the 16th and the 19th centuries. However, another equally despicable trade in Barbary slaves was taking place around the same time in the Mediterranean. It is estimated that up to 1.25 million Europeans were enslaved by Barbary corsairs and their lives were just as pitiful as their African counterparts. They have come to be known as the white slaves of Barbary.

Remembering the Barbary Slaves: White Slaves and North African Pirates | Ancient Origins

Between the 1600s and 1900s Barbary pirates captured and enslaved up to 1.25 million Europeans, who came to be known as the white slaves of Barbary. What fate awaited them in North Africa?

www.ancient-origins.net

 

[ShahdagMountains]

Slavery is one of the oldest trades known to man. We can first find records of the slave trade dating back to the Code of Hammurabi in Babylon in the 18th century BC. People from virtually every major culture, civilization, and religious background have made slaves of their own and enslaved other peoples. However, comparatively little attention has been given to the prolific trade in Barbary slaves that was carried out by pirates, or corsairs, along the Barbary coast (as it was called by Europeans at the time), in what is now Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya. Keep in mind that beginning around 1600 AD, anyone travelling in the Mediterranean faced the real prospect of being captured by the corsairs, taken to Barbary Coast cities and being sold as a slave.

 

[Anarchy666]

in what is now Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya.

At least three out of four of these countries are basically White

 

[Zebra]

Much attention and condemnation has been directed towards the tragedy of the African slave trade, which took place between the 16th and the 19th centuries. However, another equally despicable trade in Barbary slaves was taking place around the same time in the Mediterranean. It is estimated that up to 1.25 million Europeans were enslaved by Barbary corsairs and their lives were just as pitiful as their African counterparts. They have come to be known as the white slaves of Barbary.

Remembering the Barbary Slaves: White Slaves and North African Pirates | Ancient Origins

Between the 1600s and 1900s Barbary pirates captured and enslaved up to 1.25 million Europeans, who came to be known as the white slaves of Barbary. What fate awaited them in North Africa?

www.ancient-origins.net

This should better known,

 

[ShahdagMountains]

This should better known,

I’ve seen the descendants of those slaves, when l was wandering around Nazareth Market.

Blonde blue eyed Arabs. Others with red hair and freckles.