This episode of English history hasn't been forgotten, it has deliberately been suppressed.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your thoughts

@unusg1

Жыл бұрын

And your evidence of this is….?

@andyokus5735

Жыл бұрын

@@unusg1 Every school in America.

@gammonsandwich1756

Жыл бұрын

@@unusg1 The fact that no school is teaching it and no documentary ever mentions it. The fact that the majority of the population will be entirely ignorant of it proves there has been a concerted effort to stop the history getting out.

@izzyplant8428

Жыл бұрын

Spot on.

We were never taught this in school, thank you for telling this harrowing story.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

It is just part of the ugly history of slavery.

@andrewmstancombe1401

Жыл бұрын

Actually, I think it's actually this slavery that is meant in the song "National Anthem," Rule Britannia, the part that says Britons never, never, never shall be slaves. Alluding to those very Barbary corsairs mentioned here.

@mikeycraig8970

Жыл бұрын

@@andrewmstancombe1401 It's mentioned. I think the question was why successive generations haven't been taught it in school?

@alexwilliamson1486

Жыл бұрын

This is as important as the Black slave trade….I’ve been mentioning this for years…imagine being taken in the middle of a night of a beach in Cornwall, and then ending up on the slave markets in North Africa….I’d like White History month?

@helenamcginty4920

Жыл бұрын

Well I just discovered that my 1950s junior school taught us all sorts that later children were not taught. Viz the Gog Magog and foundation of Britain by Brutus. But I had not only heard of the barbary slavers but a couple of times became aware that a young girl had gone missing (half listening to adult conversations) and heard the assumption even up in 1950s Lancashire "Could be white slavers".

This story is well known in Spain. I live in Catalonia and many cities near the coast had a double settlement. One on the shore, another in the mountains where people used to flee when the pirates came. In fact, the entire coastline was dotted with watchtowers (most of which remain in place to this day). You can check the towns I'm talking about. For example: Arenys de Mar and Arenys de Dalt or Vilassar de Mar and Vilassar de Dalt (mar = sea - Dalt = above). Btw The twox2 cities exist today.

@celtspeaksgoth7251

Жыл бұрын

I was shocked at Ibiza harbour to see a monument to corsairs !

@manuelrichard4097

Жыл бұрын

@@celtspeaksgoth7251 True, the monument has to do with the fights between our own (Western) pirates armed with letters of marque to plunder ships of other nations. In this case, the obelisk was erected to commemorate the victory of an Ibizan corsair ship against another Gibraltarian corsair ship, but of course with its legal letter of marque (pirates but duly legal 😅). You know that not only the Moors did those things. By the way, this is the only monument that remembers piracy besides another one in honor of Francis Drake in Plymouth.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing the Spanish perspective.

@joyhall2736

Жыл бұрын

Wowwww

@Performance-101

Жыл бұрын

Another Spanish perspective, this time from Asturias. If you come and visit you’ll find nearly every coastal town has some sort of defense system. Towers and cannons are quite common. Of course, we had been defending our lands and people from the Moors for centuries and the Vikings before them. So we fared better than most against the Barbary. The Vikings used to skip right over our ports on the way down to the Mediterranean because they suffered incredible loss of life and vessels whenever they tried. They don’t like telling that part of the story.

Thank you! This is the only video that doesn't downplay or come off as an apologist video trying to defend the pirates and slavers. But the historical reality is that including Eastern Europe, millions of Europeans were abducted and enslaved in horrendous circumstances, before, during, and after the Atlantic Slave Trade. Fantastic and honest work.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for taking the time to comment.

@mr.m.o.g.o.m.

Жыл бұрын

You are %100 correct. Under President Jefferson administration 12% of the natuonal budget was paid to the king of Tripoli for protection so American ships would not be raided. Well sometimes they did and sometimes thw Muslims pirates abided. Eventually the gov. Sent a small contingencie of the newly formed Marine Corps who were created specifically from this piracy.. Lt. P. O'Banion led Several hundred jarheads and mercenaries and the rest is history. Unfortunately our gov. has ruined our military. Semper Fi

@mr.m.o.g.o.m.

Жыл бұрын

All Islamic states owe me reparations for my ancestors who they enslaved.

@Dayvit78

Жыл бұрын

Just the facts, ma'am!

@milanotovic8223

Жыл бұрын

Libs would call it islamophobia ..

My darling Cornish Grandma told me about pirates that captured Cornish people and took them as slaves. I said, bless you nan, are you sure..i thought it was the other way round! No one could or would capture british people..ive never heard of this before! My nana said.. "Im telling you, it happened..it was common knowledge in my village in Cornwall, Its not a tall tale" I smiled and poitely agreed that if she said so, it must have happened! Well, it seems she was right all along! Just as she was with so many other things. Love you Nan x

I'm Cornish and will be seeking reparations and a Netflix series as I now identify as a victim ..

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Ha ha. Thanks for taking the time to share your campaign

@leakoe3797

Жыл бұрын

Good for you Pete Can we all claim ?

@izzyplant8428

Жыл бұрын

Excellent, a fight back long overdue.

@chucky2316

Жыл бұрын

Pete I'm from Devon and the jam goes on top

@petebaumbach7944

Жыл бұрын

@@leakoe3797 yes ... all you have to do is perceive yourself as 'enslaved' and the money's yours ...

I learnt about this in primary school in Cornwall in the 1970s. Very rare to meet anyone from elsewhere who knows the history, let alone in this much detail, and even rarer still to hear the story without political interjection. Many thanks!

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching.

@lindathomas5500

Жыл бұрын

I wasn’t…. But thankfully my father and grandmother told me my Cornish history, oral history that has been passed down!

@susanc4622

Жыл бұрын

I didn’t know it was still going in the early 19th century.

@SK-kh2rs

Жыл бұрын

Most people are not interested in history full stop what's your point?

@LeeGee

Жыл бұрын

@@SK-kh2rs Are you American by any chance?

It’s a forgotten chapter in our history because it doesn’t fit the present day narrative imo , this is one of the best channels on here, he tells the whole story without bias , it’s been a great discovery for me ☘️

@TheHistoryChap

11 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoy it. if you want to get even more history then have a look at my supporter's club www.thehistorychap.com

@user-qq6rr2je4q

2 ай бұрын

What "narrative" exactly though??

@user-qq6rr2je4q

2 ай бұрын

What "narrative" exactly though??

I learnt about this in my English secondary school in the 60's. I'm now into my 70's. History has been dumbed down unfortunately. It is key to a deep understanding of problems now.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

We learn where we are now by understanding where we have come from.

@maryearll3359

Жыл бұрын

@@TheHistoryChap Absolutely. It has given me a sense of national and personal identification and pride, its given me roots and a sense of being involved in something worthy and good whilst recognising the good and bad which occurs within history of all nations and their people.

@imp478

3 ай бұрын

My daughter's secondary school history teacher has recently said there were never white slaves. My daughter knew better but unfortunately felt she did not have sufficient knowledge to challenge him.

As a US Navy Veteran who served on Warships this is a well known story. And as you mentioned the US Marine Corps is well known in this. In my opinion the Barbary Wars may be one of the few conflicts that were actually justified in both our Nations. Too bad the USA and Britain had to go at it again after this.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Tom, great poor about one of the few wars which both UK & USA might have been justified fighting. Thanks for sharing

@tsp141181

Жыл бұрын

it during the USMC’s involvement in the Barbary Wars which led to their adoption of their style of sword (scimitar) for officers, the old way of adopting a battle honour over a defeated foe (UK’s Household Guards Line Infantry adopting the bearskin caps of Napoleon’s Imperial Guard, Soviet forces adopting the German goose-step march, etc)…or so I thought

@angelwhite376

Жыл бұрын

All countries have had thier slaves it only the black people who complain about the past its should be equality they go on about

@thechiefwildhorse4651

Жыл бұрын

@@TheHistoryChap You mean the British whites that sqautt on Indigenous Lands today??? You think the war is over between illegal British and Indigenous People??? -COMANCHE NATION

@chadjones7569

Жыл бұрын

The Marine Corps Hymn mentions this. "From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli". Tripoli is capital city of Libya.

This is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of raiding Europe for slaves. The word slave comes from "Slav" who were particularly desirable slaves. I remember watching a video of Arabs reviewing their DNA results. They were shocked to find out that they had very mixed ancestry from Europe, likely as a result of the slave raids on Europe.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Interesting. Thanks for sharing

@mouna8007

Жыл бұрын

Do you remember the name of the video?

@mugikuyu9403

Жыл бұрын

Who was selling Slavs into slayvery? Other Europeans.

@craigharrison6662

Жыл бұрын

​@@mugikuyu9403 Muslim Raiders mainly

@mugikuyu9403

Жыл бұрын

@@craigharrison6662 Not what I’ve read. Unless Venetians and other Europeans were Muslim raiders during this time?

Very good presentation - both yours and Simon Webb’s book ‘The Forgotten Slave Trade’ are excellent reinforcements of a horrific particular history of slavery, which seem always to be an afterthought to that of the transatlantic.

@dougearnest7590

Жыл бұрын

An "afterthought" only if it's thought of at all. America is full of clueless useful idiots who probably think George Washington invented slavery. (And that's just the teachers, I dread to think what the students are learning.)

@dougearnest7590

Жыл бұрын

An "afterthought" only if it's thought of at all. America is full of clueless useful idiots who probably think George Washington invented slavery. (And that's just the teachers, I dread to think what the students are learning.)

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for taking the time to comment

@ortundzeit

Жыл бұрын

Do you every ask why this is forgotten?

@philipfinan5873

Жыл бұрын

​@@ortundzeit It is probably because the slave trade in America was one that was based on skin color. You could pretty much tell if someone was a slave at a glance and even when slavery was outlawed it was easy to discriminate against former slaves with things like the Jim crow laws. The culture surrounding slavery as well could be different the Muslim world was a very multicultural place and a slave would just be a slave, as in a person who is your property. Whereas in the Americas case the slaves taken from sub-Saharan Africa were often seen as subhuman probably because of early Darwinism style eugenic ideas type thing and as a result were treated more like animals you own. European slaves in North Africa were also much closer to home and lived in a world that would still be closely connected to Europe. This proximity, multiculturalism, and interconnectivity would probably make it easier for former slaves to blend back into society when slavery ended in these places or they escaped. Slaves also seem to have been used more diversely in the Muslim world. Soldiers, servants, and harems were examples used in the video whereas in America it was generally farm labor and house servants. Finally, I would say that in America it is still easy to see the effects of slavery to this day. There is a wealth gap, systemic racism in the justice system, the gerrymandering of city districts to undermine the black populations voting power, and probably much more. So long story short the effects of the Barbary slave trade wasn't as long-lasting or as easily obvious today at first glance. The USA is younger than the transatlantic slave trade it has been a part of its history since before its inception. Anyway, this is as good an off-the-cuff answer as I can give. I hope this answer was helpful. Sorry it just kept getting more long-winded 😅

I did not knew about that particular problem affecting english populations. On the other hand Portugal southern shores suffered much, during more than 500 years, with the north african pirates, portuguese southern populations were one of their favourite slaves, given their historic background and climate indurance. Great video sir, thanks for sharing it.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Indeed, those countries closer to North Africa were raised far more frequently.

@katesleuth1156

Жыл бұрын

The corsairs from the Barbary Coast also pillaged boats from Newfoundland who were doing trade with Portugal, Spain & the West Indies. They robbed constantly.

@mohammedlaib1847

Жыл бұрын

We, the Amazigh Berbers algerians, were the masters of the sea, and everyone used to pay taxes to obtain protection, otherwise we would take by force, but we know that the owner of the video talked about slavery, isn't it or who traded in slaves? Against blacks in Africa and the peoples of the Americas and even Southeast Asia and East Timor, you are really barbarians

@mauritsvanoranje6725

Жыл бұрын

@@mohammedlaib1847 Barbary pirates never possessed such dominance, and even within their own nations and kingdoms, they were despised

@mohammedlaib1847

Жыл бұрын

@@mauritsvanoranje6725. The Barbary Pirates were the arm of protection in our ancient state, and they had complete dominance over the Mediterranean, and everyone had to pay for protection, including American ships

These are the historical facts never taught in public schools at all. Brilliant video! Enjoy your work sir!

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure. Thanks for watching.

@SK-kh2rs

Жыл бұрын

Many things are not taught in schools. Are schools in 300 years time going to talk about us lot bombing Iraq over a lie? 😂 Prob not.

@PlayNiceFolks

Жыл бұрын

​@@SK-kh2rs Not a lie. Saddam never truly abandoned his attempts to aquire and maintain weapons of mass destruction. Many chemical weapons WMD caches were found all over Iraq. Degraded as they were, the fact that they were not turned over to the UN shows the clear intent of Saddam to subvert international law.

@user-qq6rr2je4q

2 ай бұрын

I learned about the Barbary trade in high school in the Caribbean so maybe it's the fault of other education systems

Excellent presentation, this video needs to be shared far & wide.

@TheHistoryChap

9 ай бұрын

Many thanks

Brilliant documentary. I would say, from a wider European perspective and having access to Italian and Spanish sources, that the reign of terror of the Barbary pirates lasted well over 300 years and the figure of European men and women captured and enslave may well be near 1.500.000. BTW, you don't see the Arabs bending over backwards asking for forgiveness for what they ancestors did a long time ago; as many Americans and Britons do today.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for adding that info.

@arslongavitabrevis5136

Жыл бұрын

@@TheHistoryChap You are welcome! There is a very interesting book called "The Paradise of Travellers" (The Italian influence on XVII century Englishmen) by Lytton Sells, in there it says: "The Genoese Riviera was one of the most perilous spots in western Europe...owing to the pirates from Tunis and Algeria who made regular descents on the Ligurian coast and carried off people as slaves" (p.92)

@damohben5039

Жыл бұрын

There is no comparison between the barbaric pirates and the destruction brought British and french colonialism !!!

@arslongavitabrevis5136

Жыл бұрын

@@damohben5039 The French and the British conquered territories inhabited by savages and left them as prosperous countries; most of them were/are a failure since the Europeans departed; obviously they did not learn anything.

@MariaNI-yf1bz

Жыл бұрын

Why should "the Arabs" ask for forgiveness why the work was done by European pirates/corsairs like Jack "the bird" and Murat Rais(a Dutch renegrate)

Muslim slavers generally castrated the men. This is why you don’t see a huge European genetic presence in North Africa. I encourage everyone to read Tales of Arabian Nights. It speaks of white slaves and black slaves. Also it has very interesting stories.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for taking the time to share.

@jimmyjohnson6232

11 ай бұрын

European people should get reparations from the north Africans

@karimdz9131

8 ай бұрын

​@@jimmyjohnson6232come on! We don't have money 😂😂😅

@abdelazizmetali1938

6 ай бұрын

there is a huge european genetic presence in the middle of algeria algiers medea and in the east constantine ....the west no huge presence

@jabu1591

3 ай бұрын

@@abdelazizmetali1938European presence in North Africa is usually attributed to Moriscos expulsion from Spain or from Roman times. Average North African didn’t have European slaves to mix with as the males were worked to death or ransomed off while the women usually went to the wealthy. Most of the European slaves were male while most African slaves in North Africa were female

For years, I've talked to people about this, and they don't believe you and don't want to read to find out. So I'm really happy you have put this in a short hand easily understood for those with a short span of attention. Slavery hasn't ended. White slaves still appear in the East, just not officially. What is the sex traffic if it's not slavery how many posh houses have cleaners that are actually slaves, too afraid to speak? We should stop telling our children and grandchildren slavery has ended. It hasn't! It's modern, it fits in with our modern way of life. It's everywhere but we can no longer see it. After all aren't we told Slavery was stopped in the 19th early 20th century.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for mentioning how sex trafficking is a modern form of slavery. The concept of using and abusing people hasn’t gone away.

@randylahey2607

11 ай бұрын

Perhaps Andrew the manner of your communication may be a bit, forceful?

@freneticness6927

2 ай бұрын

Dubai is probably the sex traficking capital of the world.

Slavery has been part and parcel of almost every country since recorded time. My family's roots are Sicilian, and my great grandfather used to tell us stories of Arab traders and Moors raiding Sicily and abducting children and young women to be used as slaves. Sicily saw invaders from Greece, Carthage, Rome, France, and Spain over the centuries, so the population varied in skin tone, hair and eye color, and physical build. Women and girls who were blond or redheads were especially prized and sought out for abduction as slaves in the Arab countries. Plenty of "white slavery" has occurred throughout history, and to say that only blacks were enslaved is false. Even today, slavery is alive and flourishing---not so openly as in the past----but it still exists.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing.

After watching a lot of your other videos about the British involvement in Africa recently I was waiting for this and you did not disappoint! Thank you for the great video.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Glad I didn’t disappoint

Arab and Berber pirates attacked the Western Coast of England, Wales, the southern and eastern coasts of Ireland and even up to Iceland. So many European sailors were sold in the markets of north Africa that the price was as low as one red onion. They were all castrated and usually employed as galley slaves. I have been contacted by Libyans and Palestinians because we have shared DNA and I have had to tell them that we probably have a shared female ancestor who was enslaved and raped by their male ancestors.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your DNA story.

@mohamedmamdouh682

Жыл бұрын

All castrated ? Lol

@polishherowitoldpilecki5521

9 ай бұрын

Are you being trustful on the Libyan and Palestinians?

@abdibarri9012

8 ай бұрын

you are LAIR no Arab Ever been north Africa Just BERBER

@polishherowitoldpilecki5521

8 ай бұрын

@@abdibarri9012 troll comment??

these wars are little known in the US too. Nobody wants to talk about the contributions of Africans and Muslims in the slave trade. Nobody wants to talk about how the white Europeans lead the charge on abolishing slavery.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

@Lifetalk849

Жыл бұрын

Hey Jim Kunkle, Why don't you be the change you want to see? It's the American way to speak up & act up!

@jimkunkle2669

Жыл бұрын

@@Lifetalk849 You have no idea how vocal I am, or how involved I am..

Retired, I spend so much time watching history videos, I really appreciate new (to me) stories. This is also a very important period in American history, so it was fascinating hearing it from a British perspective! Most Americans forget their history lessons the day after the test, but the subject of the Barbary Pirates *is* enshrined in American historical culture in the USMC Hymn, and the slogan/policy "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute". It was the first overseas engagement of the US as a nation. An undeclared war.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching.

Well honestly my look at the history of slavery has taught me it is part of the human condition. No matter the color of skin, Religion, where you are from, it is a part of humanity. An sadly, it is alive to this day. Great video! PS as US marine I really liked this one !

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Glad you found it interesting

@leakoe3797

Жыл бұрын

@@TheHistoryChap Absolutely true Thank you for the facts Immigrants take note !

@MrLobstermeat

Жыл бұрын

@Jerry Louis with The Thickness Yes religion does matter but slavery has been around far longer then any of the Abrahamic faiths. Slavery has been around and practiced for over 10 thousand years.

@Nettsinthewoods

Жыл бұрын

@@MrLobstermeat we must not forget the thousands of white slaves taken by the Romans either

@iforgotwhattosayhoffman4296

Жыл бұрын

we had a store in a bad neighbourhood with a majority Jamaican population in Scarborough ontario ,we bought it from a old jewish man who had a old jamaican gentleman called pops stack shelves, carry cases of pop , watch for thieves though he didn’t catch everything and would basically do anything for a few dollars worth of groceries at the end of the day basically modern day slavery even though pops said he liked it , we told him that we didn’t think that was fair and we couldn’t afford to pay him what he deserved , he didn’t care he was happy with what the previous owner paid him , when i worked i got him a chair and i told him your job is to sleep in it , he didn’t listen he couldn’t sit still always had to work….just as we sold the store a few years later pops daughter won almost a million dollars playing the lottery, she bought a house in a better area but the last i heard pops still kept going to the store to work for pennies

Giles Million's "White Gold" is a good book about what it was like to be enslaved by the Barbary Pilates.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing.

A 200 year history that many are unaware of.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

So many other historical events in British history, it's not surprising that it is lost in the footnotes.

An excellent expansion of my knowledge of this period. Sally Magnusson, daughter of Magnus, wrote an excellent novel 'The Seal Woman' set around the Barbary Pirate raid on Iceland.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Fascinating. Thanks for sharing.

This is an excellent teaching module. Well presented, factual and non partisan, the latter being its saving grace from being removed from circulation. I live very close to Kings Lynn and had absolutely no idea they came that far up! I shall have to do local research to see whether it is still remembered anywhere in town.

@TheHistoryChap

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching and for taking the time to comment

Excellent documentary! 😊👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 I heard of these raids of south coast villages and always wondered were the British navy was. Certainly in the 1600s England was relatively weak and focussed on French, Dutch and Spanish foes. It surprised me that, that slavery raids on England and crews were rampant into the mid 1800s. Today we have rubber boats full of non-christians wishing to become Britons..🤔🤷🏻

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Glad you found it interesting.

@mohamedmamdouh682

Жыл бұрын

Yeah after 200 years of your occupation to our lands through colonization and interventions , starting wars etc that's normal although i think they are sinful to migrate to godless athiest countries

The book, "The Stolen Village" tells the story of The Barbery slave raids in Co Cork, Ireland, very interesting read.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing.

One of the best youtube videos I have ever seen. As someone who studies history all the time I am astounded to not know much about this. I have been telling everyone about this bit of history and sharing your video! Great channel.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your support.

Thanks for this video, an often forgotten part of History.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed

@mikeycraig8970

Жыл бұрын

A deliberately forgotten part of history! Doesn't suit wokery to have this known. Same with the Irish who took Britons and Anglo Saxons in their raids ( Saint Patrick was one) leading to conquests. You can't have any of this known widely, it would mean more recent victims wouldn't be treated like little gods if it turned out EVERYBODY suffered the same 😉

@robertcottam8824

Жыл бұрын

@@mikeycraig8970 But this was widely known, old chap. All one had to do was read. Put down your Daily Mail and join your local library. They will have all the information that you need. And it's free. Happy enlightenment!

@mikeycraig8970

Жыл бұрын

@Robert Cottam 1) Don't try to patronise me, I know how a library works. 2) I may well be able to find one old, obscure book detailing the slave trade in whites, in my local library, but that wasn't the point. The point was it is not taught in schools where as the trade in Africans IS covered in very great detail, across multiple year groups whilst the subject of black people taking white slaves isn't even broached. But you knew exactly what I meant, you only commented because you somehow deem yourself the 'all knowing one' whilst implying everyone else is thick. I read the Express not the Mail. Either way, both publications are doing well on their own merit. Unlike your paper of choice which isn't able to sustain itself on its readership alone, personally I'd like to see the Guardian defunct and gone, but the government for some strange reason wish to prop it up. Probably so minorities like you don't feel left out.

Thank you very much for covering in such thorough detail an important piece of our history that is largely ignored. God bless you! - From Boston, USA🙏🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for taking the time to watch

@ianmarshall9144

11 ай бұрын

hahahaha what an idiotic thing to say , god bless you , hahahaha , it would be your god that allowed this disgusting act to take place , and religion HAS BEEN IN THE FOREFRONT OF CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY .

@alliswell7968

7 ай бұрын

@@TheHistoryChapI’ve watched a lot of videos related to piracy they all mentioned the North Africa region specifically the port of Algiers 1631 that explains why a lot of Algerians are blonde blue eyes genes coming from the most telling is the Baltimore cafe/bar in Ireland named Algiers. Greetings from down under Oz

Thanks for giving an accurate picture of human history. Today were force-fed a distorted view of history that only one group of people we're ever enslaved

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Once more an excellent story. As it briefly mentioned, the Barbary slavers had an absolutely even more devastating effect on the economy and politics of Italy and its islands like Sardinia.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for taking the time to comment.

@thomaskerr822

Жыл бұрын

I went to the Amalfi Coast on honeymoon and various guides referred to the effects of piracy on the area, I heard similar in Sicily

@John_Pace

Жыл бұрын

@@thomaskerr822 Yes, it had a nasty effect on the Italian political development and economy, until the French took Algeria in 1830.

Glad to see this presentation. Whilst researching graves in Colonial Charlestown Massachusetts, I happened upon a Sarah Elson whose husband James, a Sea Captain was taken by the Barbary Pirates and died in slavery.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

This history should but never will be taught in British schools. You do us all a great service Chris.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching.

My dark skinned Jamaican father told me slaves come in all forms, and back in the early 70's told me about how many white/fair people were enslaved by different powers over time, it's not just Africans. He always said it African's were enslaved so thoroughly finally because Europeans had guns.. I wonder where he got this tale, but I think it would be orally handed down from his Scottish great grandfather and jewish grandfather. Thank you for this story, it shows how slavery has always been with us, and still is, and now we need to stop it in all it's current iterations

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

How interesting. Thanks for sharing.

Excellent video, you really are covering a variety of topics. Fascinating as always

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it

What a fascinating, comprehensive and well delivered video. I wish that this information was common knowledge. I'm from the Dorset coast, so it's particularly thought provoking!

@TheHistoryChap

9 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching.

This was a great presentation. You taught me so much about a subject that I did not have an in-depth knowledge of. Thank you.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

We were never taught any of this in school in England back in the 50’s. The slave trade we learnt of was how the whites enslaved the blacks to work on sugar plantations in the Caribbean. (and we have been paying for it ever since). I was only aware of the full extent of this when I read “White Gold” back in early 2000’s while visiting the U.K. and saw the book being reviewed on breakfast t.v. Excellent coverage of the topic, I wish more people were aware. Thank you

@helenamcginty4920

Жыл бұрын

Well I went to school from 1952 to 1966 and I was taught about it as a junior. Maybe your school didnt teach it. I didnt learn about the black slave trade until I was 11 and then not again till O levels when our syllabus covered the battles of the working classes for decent living and working conditions. We wasted 2 years with one of those appalling non teachers who wrote stuff on the blackboard that we then had to copy into our rough books. No wonder so few people remembered anything.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Agree.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for taking the time to comment.

@dirkbogarde7796

Жыл бұрын

Muslim Arabs took an estimated 17 million Africans as slaves over 700 years. Those who did not convert were castrated. The Muslims took slaves everywhere from India, to Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Europe.

@ej12349

Жыл бұрын

All forms of slavery existed in every country at one time or another. Slavery still exists today in many forms in many countries.

This should be compulsory viewing for a well known "British" sportsman, who has well publicised views on Slavery ~ but not this view of slavery

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for taking the time to post your thoughts.

I'm from King's lynn in Norfolk, and although i had heard of the corsairs, i had no idea they got as far as the east coast! I'm massively keen to learn more after seeing your awesome video. 👌

@TheHistoryChap

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching

Fantastic. Thank you. I do remember this British history. Long forgotten but still it should be taught in schools.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

I've always wanted to know about the Barbary pirates...most impressive video, thanks Chris.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure. Glad you enjoyed.

Excellent stuff, as always, thanks for posting.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure. Thanks for watching.

Great video today thanks for what you do as I really enjoyed the one today

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your support

Don’t see the black community raise awareness on this for the poor whites of England for this or hold special days to commemorate this etc etc…..

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts

@user-pg7cx9wo1m

28 күн бұрын

Black Americans are all not the same, fir instance the Black Americans whose ancestors arrived by slave ships were from the Tribe of Judah. There were Black skinned people already in America when they arrived

I had some knowledge of this period but until I read White Gold by Giles Milton I hadn't realised just how how widespread and devastating for coastal communities this was. Not just in Europe but as far north and west as Iceland and Newfoundland.

@nunorican

Жыл бұрын

Indeed, it was that book that led me here. Great book, BTW.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for taking the time to comment.

@burt5057

Жыл бұрын

@@TheHistoryChap History is a passion of mine. Especially military history. Looking forward to my first visit to Waterloo next week.

@polishherowitoldpilecki5521

9 ай бұрын

Why didn’t European navies do anything.

In my father’s village church on the North Sea coast there was (is?) a box by the entrance alongside the Poor Box. For donations to pay ransoms for local sailors taken by Barbary pirates. It is said to have been there for 200 years. The lesson here is not that slavery is a white or black problem but it is one that must be stamped out by all. It is hardly adequate to say that the British input into the slave trade was regrettable but I am proud that Britons decided to not only abolish slavery for moral reasons but went further and fought and died to stop slaves being taken from West and East Africa.

@TheHistoryChap

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing that story, and your opinion that slavery is wrong, wherever

Well Done! About time someone covered this. A few weeks back I heard the Pirates raided Holland as well.

@TheHistoryChap

10 ай бұрын

Wasn't aware of that.

@leenorman853

13 күн бұрын

Some of the Barbary pirate captains were actually Dutch! During the period of the Spanish Netherlands, they joined the Barbary pirates to fight Spain, but also raided many other countries.

"Watch out for the Bogey men" we used to be told as kids. These turned out to be real Muslim pirates from the Aceh region of Indonesia - still today the more rabidly fundamentalist part of Indonesia. They conducted themselves in the same manner as the Barbary corsairs. Isn't history interesting?

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing a perspective from another part of the world.

Great content. A bit of history that's inconvenient for some in this day and age.

@smoxesk

Жыл бұрын

funy guy

@mugikuyu9403

Жыл бұрын

Who’s it inconvenient to?

@skorrie3849

Жыл бұрын

@@mugikuyu9403 Those pushing Antiwhiteism

@mugikuyu9403

Жыл бұрын

@@skorrie3849 And who are they? Can you name me some names.

@mugikuyu9403

Жыл бұрын

@@skorrie3849 How so?

Very interesting topic, thank you for making a video on it. I see your subscribers has shot up, not long before 100k :D

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Looking forward to the 100k.

Cheers m8, this REALLY put things into perspective for me. I’ll share this with my students.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it.

Not a word about this in schools...

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Not a word about quite a lots of British history. I guess we have too much to teach adolescent kids!

The network of forts in the Algarve, south Portugal, is a testament to the frequent attacks of north african pirates. One of the reasons for the conquest of Ceuta, in 1415, which gave way to the discoveries and expansion era, was to thwart these attacks and hamper their free movement west of Gibraltar.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing.

This is great content😊 packed neatly

Enjoy watching your videos glad I found them today.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Glad you are enjoying.

Thanks for doing this Chris, done very well as usual. So when can we expect compensation?

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Still waiting for compensation from the Roman Empire 🤣

@EuroWarsOrg

Жыл бұрын

@@TheHistoryChap aah but it could be argued they already gave us much in return? Seriously though, how can I put this excellent video on facebook?

@Lifetalk849

Жыл бұрын

The best compensation for any of us who may be descendants of slaves is the understanding/insight that our heritage is from people who have experienced and even overcome incredible loss and adversity, and that we are NOT victims.

As a white bloke that is in no way related to any of those slaves where's my reparations ?

@scottanno8861

Жыл бұрын

We WUZ slaves n sheeeeitt

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your question

I read Lord Exmout’s biography and Gunfire in Barbary years ago and enjoyed your presentation. It is forgotten history that must be remembered.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching.

Your presentation is absolutely fabulous! I am a historian, and sharing this history in classrooms is exceedingly difficult. So thrilled for your work here.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Very kind of you. Thanks.

Miguel de Cervantes was captured by these pirates, he stay 5 years in Argel, capital of Argelia. Return to freedom in 1580.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

he was indeed.

Fascinating stuff. Quality clip. Thank you

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure.

A very informative and interesting video thank you for sharing.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

L glad you found it interesting

Very well done and informatively educational!

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Very interesting. We always get blamed for taking black slaves to America. This side of the story is often forgotten.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

That's why I wanted to tell it.

I know this story well because one of my relatives Constantine Moorsom was captain of the bomb vessel HMS Fury at the 1816 bombardment of Algiers. He was an abolitionist who attended the 1840 anti-slavery conference, a group portrait of which hangs in the National Gallery. He went on to build railways and by 1861 was chairman of LNWR.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for taking the time to share your family story.

Great report! Thank you, Mr. Green. I'm a retired German and did hear something about a naval battle of the young US Navy...but this was all. Your cristal clear British English is fascinating for me, who knows quite well there's locations in GB, where I do understand nearly nothing with my school English...at least for the first two weeks of my stay...a mere time of horrible headaches. Nevertheless I can't help I loving Brits...God shave the King❤

Slavery was never about Race, but rather about Power. Those who have it vs. those who don't.

@Rockstarmade224

Жыл бұрын

America made it about race tho

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts

@britishqueen94

Жыл бұрын

Spot on. The reason this history is suppressed is because it lays bear that Whites upto the 19th Century were weak to Muslims just the same way Poitiers and seiges of Vienna are not well known by the masses

@user-pg7cx9wo1m

28 күн бұрын

True

@rayspencer5025

28 күн бұрын

@@Rockstarmade224 Not really. Very few Whites actually owned Slaves. By far most Whites were financially negetively impacted by Slavery because it greatly depreciated the value of paid labor Contrary to popular belief there were some elite African Americans, Latino Americans, and Native Americans who owned Slaves; and they were just as likely to treat them poorly. However, thise who likely suffered most from Slavery were the Poor unskilled laborers because while there were "some laws protecting" the treatment of Slaves, there were none protecting the Poor.

Excellent video as always. I hadn’t heard about the incident of the three former slaves impaled on their return to England on suspicion of “turning Turk”, sounds absolutely horrific.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed (if that is the right phrase for this particular subject!)

Wow - chapters in history this history lover had never heard anything about. Thx so much.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure. Glad you enjoyed it.

Tough topic to tackle. Thanks for doing it.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

Very good Chris. Some great content and important points raised about the wider global slave trade that many were hitherto unaware of. Part of my family comes from the West Country, so I had heard a little on this topic. However, your detailed level of info ,is, as ever, fascinating to listen to.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for commenting. I’m glad you found it interesting

@timec2002

Жыл бұрын

@@TheHistoryChap yes indeed it was very good Chris. When are you starting work on “The Great Game” series? 😁😁

Thanks Chris, great video as always .. but I'm just sitting here thinking about it lasting 200 years. 200 hundred years. That's like it ending today having started in 1823. Just unbelievable.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

It was a long period, but then so was the trans-Atlantic slave trade

wow, extraordinary stuff thank you for another informative , excellent presentation

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

I am 68, and we were taught this piece of history in school, but that was long before the PC Brigade, the revisionists and Woke Brigade were even heard off and, yes, we were also taught about the East India Company selling opium to China for tea and the Chinese attempt to stop the trade, which led to mass opium addiction in China and the subsequent Opium Wars that followed. We were also taught about the Japanese Rape of Nanking, The Black Hole of Calcutta, General Dyers ordering troops to fire on a largely unarmed group of protesters in Amritsar, India in 1919,which killed and injured up to 1500 people, African tribal leaders selling their enemies and tribal members who were perceived as a threat to them into slavery to the British, Portuguese, Americans and others and a lot more besides that I very much doubt has been taught about in schools for many years now because it does not fit in with the PC and Woke Brigade or the revisionists, our history, like that of most countries, especially those that had empires such as Germany, Spain, Belgium, Italy and others is a mixture of good, bad and the really bad but there were those who fought to abolish the slave trade, and were the first European country to do so, to stop the concentration camps in South Africa, to bring in voting rights for all men, find out what the Cat and Mouse Act was and how many women paid a very high price to bring in Women's Suffrage, the Corn Laws, Factory Acts, prison reform, Parliamentary reform and a whole lot more as well as all the inventions that came from our little island that made the world a better place.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for taking the time to share your experiences of education.

@seandobson499

7 ай бұрын

@@TheHistoryChap Sarcasm is no substitute for your lack of knowledge or research.

It expanded even into Scandinavia. All of Europe was basically a constant target of slave raids for 1000 years, and 500 of those years by North Africans. Poland alone lost 3 million people to islamic slave raids...

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this.

Lundy? Extraordinary! You're really shedding some light here, Sir. Isn't it about time the descendents of those responsible for this slavery apologised? I'm sure we'd all feel the benefit...

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Who would have thought that little old Lundy had such a history.

Fascinating history and so well presented!

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Very kind of you. Thanks for watching

A really good video, very informative. I wished this got shown in schools.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for commenting and for watching in the first place.

An interesting (and under-reported/understood) piece of history. As is North African / Arab slavers' role in the African slave trade to Europe and North America.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for taking the time to comment

Dear History Chap, thank you for bring this to light, I have not heard the phrase Barbary Pirates in many, many years. Yes European white slave trade Really did happen, and sick of hearing about how only Britain and America were slave trader. this Film helps balance things out. So I can whole heartedly say White Lives Matter too. 😊😊🧡🧡

@helenamcginty4920

Жыл бұрын

I only recently discovered that the whole idea that Black Africans were sub human so it was OK to enslave them was invented by a 15th Century Portuguese writer on instructions from the king. I had previously been told that it was promulgated by British slave owners in North America.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Slavery has been the curse of too many so called civilizations.

Surprised Britain didn't take a martial response sooner and more aggressively considering its actions against Zanzibar when the wrong man became ruler.

Wow!!! I was never taught this part of history in school. Never heard about this history before. Thank you for this video.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it.

Every single child should learn about the enslavement of their ancestors by Africans and Muslims. Reparations should be paid.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Not sure it is a straightforward as that. To me it shows how humanity is inter-connected.

@KingofgraceSARA

Жыл бұрын

You should teach about it and fight for it. It won't get done sitting on KZread.

@mugikuyu9403

Жыл бұрын

North Africans. Colloquially the word African refers to the black people who live past the Saharan desert and we have nothing to do with Barbary pirates enslaving your ancestors. You definitely should learn about it, it’s your history. And if you descend from those enslaved you should definitely work to get more attention paid to this subject and even reparations from the North African and Arab countries that supported the trade.

I don't like how it always comes back to a certain other issue, but I am glad when people elaborate on the concept of slavery as a whole as it helps... It helps let your eyes roll a bit when you hear some of the lunacy that comes out of some mouths.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching. As I said in the video the size of this trade was one twelfth of the trans Atlantic slave trade but a million people is still a big number and a lot of suffering

@user-yz8pw9dv2n

8 ай бұрын

Like it or not thier religion had and still has today Arabia tomorrow the world.And that we not of that religion are simply for their use ! Just as the plan of Hitler's nazi aims.This is the truth that was behind all this,for some the truth hurts ! Hideous history hS done also by the church denominations of Europe,but in complete opposition to what Jesus taught.Thier are Christians in Europe but Europe and its history certainly not Christian,quiet the shameful horrendous opposite.When will we wake up and smell the coffee !

the most comprehensive video i have seen on the subject

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching

Absolutely fascinating. While this topic may not fit the current narrative of slavery, it's an incredible story.

@TheHistoryChap

11 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching.

Interesting and often overlooked subject. I have found references to payments made to survivors of slavery attacks made by the borough council of Christchurch, Dorset during the 17th and 18th centuries. One small point. The bombardment referred to at the opening was led by HMS Queen Charlotte. There were near-contemporary ships named Charlotte but they were sloops, not ships-of-the-line.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

My mistake, thanks for sharing

I had no idea this happened in history. It is something i was never taught or even heard about. Very interesting to learn the history.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Glad you found it interesting

@annemurphy9339

Жыл бұрын

These relentless islamic slave raids into Europe for over 500 years inspired the first of the retaliatory Crusades.

@CreatingChaos

Жыл бұрын

Most people have no idea. The majority wouldnt even look

Well, now I think French colonization of Algeria was clearly an improvement over the previous arrangement.

They should teach this stuff in schools

@helenamcginty4920

Жыл бұрын

They must have done way back because I knew about it. 1950s junior school. With proper stories. Even our reading books could be gruesome.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

There is a lot of history that could be taught. But if they covered everything there would probably be no time for all the other lessons!

@greggrimer1428

Жыл бұрын

Goes against their woke agenda. They like to portray white people as bad.

Excellant video m8...covering how man's greed and cruelty knows no bounds regardless of race...keep up the vids m8

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your support

Perhaps the UK government should sue the government's of Morocco and Algeria for compensation .

@helenamcginty4920

Жыл бұрын

Move over. You would need to stand in line behind the French, Spanish, Italians, Black Africans etc. Who suffered enslavement by the Arabs to a greater extent. As is made clear in the video.

@stevedeakin1883

Жыл бұрын

@@helenamcginty4920 that's right I agree with you completely all I said is that the UK government should try to sue those governments , it's up to the governments of the countries that you listed to claim compensation too 😊👍

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Not sure it will change very much.

@mohammedlaib1847

Жыл бұрын

Compensation haha ​​and your country Britain stole half of the world and transferred half of Africa's population to America

Very interesting, and good narration (melodic, with clear diction)

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

Kind of you. All those years at Toastmasters International finally paying off!

Wow !! Another superbly told piece of history...

A fascinating video and very educational.. something we get to hear nothing about it in our schooling. Thank you.

@TheHistoryChap

Жыл бұрын

There’s loads of history we don’t get taught. Although teaching adolescents anything is a challenge!