Barbary slave trade
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barbary-slave-trade-229-257839
title:
Barbary slave trade
text:
The Barbary slave trade involved the capture and selling of European slaves at slave markets in the largely independent Ottoman Barbary states. European slaves were captured by Barbary pirates in slave raids on ships and by raids on coastal towns from Italy to Ireland, and the southwest of Britain, as far north as Iceland and into the Eastern Mediterranean. The Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean was the scene of intense piracy. As late as the 18th century, piracy continued to be a "consistent threat
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Slave markets in North Africa
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_slave_trade
date created:
2007-12-31T22:53:30Z
date modified:
2024-09-15T15:53:17Z
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