From midway through the sixteenth century until the early nineteenth, tens of thousands of people were taken captive by Barbary[…]
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Month: December 2018
THE ALGIERS SLAVE MARKET: PART 2
(This post is a continuation of The Algiers Slave Market: Part 1. If you haven’t done so already, it’s best[…]
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THE ALGIERS SLAVE MARKET: PART 3
(This post is a continuation of The Algiers Slave Market: Parts 1 & 2. If you haven’t done so already,[…]
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SLAVERY IN NORTH AFRICA
Mostly, when we think of slavery, we think of it in terms of the Africans who were forcibly shipped across[…]
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CALAFAT HASSAN – THE TALE OF A CORSAIR REIS: PART 1
During the age of the Barbary corsairs, successful corsair captains were not only wealthy and important men; they were folk[…]
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