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In the mid-19th century, the term 'white slavery' was used to describe the Christian slaves that were sold into the Barbary slave trade in North Africa. History The phrase "white slavery" was used by Charles Sumner in 1847 to describe the slavery of Christians throughout the Barbary States and primarily in Algiers , the capital of Ottoman ...
In 1645, around 200 men, women and children were abducted by a big slave raid near Fowey in Cornwall and taken as slaves to North Africa. [35] The number of captives at this occasion was possibly as high as 240, some of whom were "gentlewomen".
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 ...
At the same time, many African communities relocated far away from slave trade routes, often protecting themselves from the Atlantic slave trade but hindering economic and technological development at the same time. [115] In many African societies traditional lineage slavery became more like chattel slavery due to an increased work demand. [116]
In Algiers during the time of the Regency of Algiers in North Africa in the 19th century, up to 1.5 million Christians and Europeans were captured and forced into slavery. [70] This eventually led to the Bombardment of Algiers in 1816 by the British and Dutch, forcing the Dey of Algiers to free many slaves. [71]
In South Africa they remain the dominant white ethnic group in KwaZulu-Natal, while in Gauteng and the Western Cape they also contribute to a large percentage of the English-speaking population. [citation needed] English is a second language of many non-British white Africans with higher education in almost all non-English-speaking African nations.
They captured almost all the villagers and took them away to a life of slavery in North Africa. [14] The prisoners were destined for a variety of fates—some lived out their days chained to the oars as galley slaves. At the same time, women spent long years as concubines in harems or within the walls of the sultan's palace. Only two of these ...
Many Black slaves lived in conditions conducive to malnutrition and disease, with effects on their own life expectancy, the fertility of women, and the infant mortality rate. [37] As late as the 19th century, Western travellers in North Africa and Egypt noted the high death rate among imported Black slaves. [38]