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  2. Slavery on the Barbary Coast - Wikipedia

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    White Slavery in the Barbary States: A lecture before the Boston Mercantile Library Association. ISBN 9781092289818. A True and Faithful Account of the Religion and Manners of the Mahometans by Joseph Pitts (1663–1735) Pitts was captured as a boy aged 14 by Barbary pirates off the coast of Spain. His sale as a slave and his life under three ...

  3. Barbary slave trade - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. Barbary corsairs - Wikipedia

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    The pirate coast : Thomas Jefferson, the first marines and the secret mission of 1805 Hyperion, 2005. ISBN 1-4013-0849-X; Christian slaves, Muslim masters : white slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500–1800 by Robert C. Davis. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. ISBN 978-0-333-71966-4

  5. Turkish Abductions - Wikipedia

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    In 1607, both Iceland and the Faroe Islands were subjected to a slave raid by the Barbary pirates, who abducted hundreds of people for the slave markets of North Africa. [4] In 1627, the Barbary pirates came to Iceland in two groups: the first group was from Salé and the second one, which came a month later, was from Algiers. [3]

  6. Corsairs of Algiers - Wikipedia

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    "A Barbary Pirate", by Giovanni Guida (1837-1895) The corsair captains were joined by adventurers from many parts of the Mediterranean. Non-Turks who came to Algiers as captives of Algerian corsairs gained admittance to the ta'ifa of raïs through conversion to Islam and by virtue of their knowledge of the areas the corsairs raided. [3]

  7. Barbary Coast - Wikipedia

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    A 17th-century map by the Dutch cartographer Jan Janssonius showing the Barbary Coast, here "Barbaria". The Barbary Coast (also Barbary, Berbery, or Berber Coast) was the name given to the coastal regions of central and western North Africa or more specifically the Maghreb and the Ottoman borderlands consisting of the regencies in Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli, as well as the Sultanate of ...

  8. Sack of Baltimore - Wikipedia

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    The sack of Baltimore took place on 20 June 1631, when the village of Baltimore in West Cork, Ireland, was attacked by pirates from the Barbary Coast of North Africa – the raiders included Dutchmen, Algerians, and Ottoman Turks. The attack was the largest by Barbary slave traders on Ireland. [1] [2]

  9. Barbary Wars - Wikipedia

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    The First Barbary War (1801–1805), also known as the Tripolitian War or the Barbary Coast War, was the first of two wars fought by the alliance of the United States and several European countries [33] [34] against the Northwest African Muslim states known collectively as the Barbary states.