Month: July 2023

Father Pierre Dan, a French Trinitarian friar, was the author of one of the most comprehensive books on Barbary corsairs[…]

When people think of Barbary corsairs, they often envision them in oared galleys massing to attack European sailing ships—rather like[…]

Mostly, when we think of slavery, we think of it in terms of the Africans who were forcibly shipped across[…]