Hmm, I thought slavery was uniquely American… John L Hoh Jr

Between the 1600s and 1900s, North African pirates captured and enslaved up to 1.25 million Europeans who came to be known as the white slaves of Barbary.

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Between the 1600s and 1900s, North African pirates captured and enslaved up to 1.25 million Europeans who came to be known as the white slaves of Barbary.

The Barbary slave trade involved the capture and selling of European slaves at slave markets in the largely independent Ottoman Barbary states...

The Barbary slave trade came to an end in the early years of the 19th century, after the United States and Western European allies won the First and Second Barbary Wars against the pirates and the region was conquered by France, putting an end to the trade by the 1830s...