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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 ...
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Slavery on the Barbary Coast refers to the enslavement of people taken captive by the Barbary corsairs of North Africa. According to Robert Davis, author of Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters , between 1 million and 1.2 million Europeans were captured by Barbary pirates and sold as slaves in North Africa and The Ottoman Empire between the 16th ...
This meant that the children of slave women were born into slavery, even if their fathers were free, European, Christian, and white. This was a reversal of English common law, which held that the children of English subjects took the status of their father. The Virginian colonial government expressed the opinion that since Africans were not ...
Murad's crew, made up of European renegades [a] and Algerians, launched their covert attack on the remote village of Baltimore on 20 June 1631. [5] [2] They captured at least 107 villagers, [6] mostly English settlers along with some local Irish people (some reports put the number as high as 237). [7]
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Initially a device used to transport European workers to the New World, over time servitude dwindled as black slavery grew in importance in the British colonies." [ 3 ] Although most Irish immigrants were free or indentured and not slaves, it has been popularly claimed that Cromwell's sale of thousands of military prisoners in the 1650s could ...
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