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[30]: 12–13 Some black pirates were escaped slaves. Boarding a pirate vessel became a way to escape to the Atlantic North undetected. Escaped slave Frederick Douglass disguised himself in "sailor's garb," and "was able to travel undetected to the North and his freedom." [31]: 26 As crewmen, blacks made up part of the "pirate vanguard."
As Dr. John Callow at University of Suffolk notes, the experience of enslavement by the Barbary corsairs preceded the Atlantic slave trade and "the memory of slavery, and the methodology of slaving, that was burned into the British consciousness was first and foremost rooted in a North African context, where Britons were more likely to be ...
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 ...
Two American ships, the schooner Maria, and the Dauphin were captured by Algerian pirates in July 1785 and the survivors forced into slavery, their ransom set at $60,000. A rumor that Benjamin Franklin, who was en route from France to Philadelphia about that time, had been captured by Barbary pirates, caused considerable upset in the U.S. [20]
The Atlantic slave trade was the result of, among other things, labour shortage, itself in turn created by the desire of European colonists to exploit New World land and resources for capital profits. Native peoples were at first utilized as slave labour by Europeans until a large number died from overwork and Old World diseases. [150]
The Fromandskorpset deployed took down the suspected pirates without Danish casualties. It was a rare look at Denmark's Frogman Corps, a little-known but highly skilled commando unit.
[17]: 12–13 Some black pirates were escaped slaves. Boarding a pirate vessels became a way to escape to the Atlantic North undetected. Escaped slave Frederick Douglass disguised himself in "sailor’s garb," and "was able to travel undetected to the North and his freedom.” [16]: 26 As crewmen, blacks made up part of the "pirate vanguard."
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