No tears shed for the 1 million Europeans slaves that north Africans had,the Barbary pirates were very fond of raiding christian coastal towns and ships and taking them as cargo.
I didn't know about white slavery. The US education system only teaches about the African slaves in the south and its a national obsession. I don't think many people are aware of this. Kinda evens the score as whites have suffered the same. Paul Craig Roberts has written an informative account on the subject.
Whites Were Slaves In North Africa Before Blacks Were Slaves In The New World
Support Your Website Things that used to be true before political correctness set in: More whites were brought as slaves to North Africa than blacks
www.paulcraigroberts.org
Excerpts:
“Ohio State University history Professor Robert Davis describes the
White Slave Trade as minimized by most modern historians in his book
Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast and Italy, 1500–1800. Davis estimates that 1 million to 1.25 million Europeans were enslaved in North Africa, from the beginning of the 16th century to the middle of the 18th, by
slave traders from Tunis, Algiers, and Tripoli alone (these numbers do not include the European people who were enslaved by Morocco and by other raiders and traders of the
Mediterranean Sea coast),
[3] and roughly 700
Americans were held captive in this region as slaves between 1785 and 1815.
[4]
“Perpetrated largely on Europeans, and within in-land routes to indigenous European inhabitants. These peoples were systematically preyed upon and turned into slaves, acquired by
Barbary pirates during
slave raids on ships and by raids on coastal towns from
Italy to
the Netherlands, as far north as
Iceland and in the eastern shores of the
Mediterranean.”
“White slavery,
white slave trade, and
white slave traffic refer to the
chattel slavery of
White Europeans by non-Europeans (such as
North Africans and the
Muslim world), as well as by Europeans themselves, such as the
Viking thralls or European
Galley slaves. From Antiquity, European slaves were common during the reign of
Ancient Rome and were prominent during the
Ottoman Empire into the
early modern period. In
Feudalism, there were various forms of status below the
Freeman that is known as
Serfdom (such as the
bordar,
villein,
vagabond and
slave) which could be bought and sold as property and were subject to labor and branding by their owners or
demense. Under
Muslim rule, the
Arab slave trades that included
Caucasian captives were often fueled by raids into European territories or were taken as children in the form of a
blood tax from the families of citizens of
conquered territories to serve the empire for a variety of functions. In the mid-19th century, the term ‘white slavery’ was used to describe the Christian slaves that were sold into the
Barbary slave trade.”
