The Diabolical History Of The Barbary Slave Trade
“From the halls of Montezuma, to the shores of Tripoli...” are the beginning lines from the United States Marine Corps Hymn, and the “Tripoli” that's mentioned is the largest city in today's Libya. The hymn was written sometime after 1867, and these lines commemorate two of the Marine Corps' most famous battles “the halls of Montezuma referring to the Mexican-American War of 1846-48, and “the shores of Tripoli” refers to the battles the Marine Corps, along with the US Navy, fought with the infamous “Barbary Pirates” who terrorized the coast of North Africa, the Mediterranean Sea and indeed, a large part of Europe for at three centuries.
Slavery had existed in the Mediterranean Basin since before the time of Rome. During the Roman expansion, people from all corners of the empire were enslaved: Franks, Germans, Slavs, Greeks, various people from the Balkans, Africans traded to Rome by Egypt, Jews from Israel and more. Some of the richest people in Rome and the Gothic and Arab empires which followed it were slave traders. Many Viking raiders grew rich and powerful from the treasure they hoarded trading slaves. Slavery was common in Europe, the north coast of Africa, and the Middle East until relatively recent times.
The Barbary States
In the 1500s, the Ottoman Turks expanded along the North African coast. Due to distance and the fiercely independent nature of the Berbers and others, however, Ottoman control of the Barbary Coast was nominal. As long as the people there recognized the Ottoman Sultan as their overlord and gave help when it was asked, the Turks left the people of the coast alone.
One of the many interesting things about the Barbary Pirates is that, as time went on, many of them were not from the region. Many were Europeans, acting much like today's mercenaries, looking for adventure and a quick buck. Unfortunately, what they were mainly looking for were other human being to sell into slavery.
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Muslims will talk about the western imperialism but get real quiet(or try to justify it) when you bring up Muslim imperialism
@AhmedYusef87
Ай бұрын
Whites sold other whites into slavery. Viking raids in Western Europe, such as Ireland, could be sold to Moorish Spain via the Dublin slave trade or transported to Hedeby or Brännö and from there via the Volga trade route to present day Russia, where slaves and furs were sold to Muslim merchants in exchange for Arab silver ...
@leonaessens4399
2 күн бұрын
The Barbary pirates had NOTHING to do with "Muslim imperialism." They were just pirates in the exact same way the Vikings were pirates. Vikings pillaged Europe and the Mediterranean long before the Barbary pirates did, and were still at it long after. In fact it could be argued the Vikings were much worse than the Barbary pirates, and preyed on a much larger area of Europe and the entire Mediterranean. The slave trade was their bread and butter, and in fact the Vikings were the worst and most active slavers in world history.
@Yannickille
2 күн бұрын
@leonaewrong😂ssens4399
@Yannickille
2 күн бұрын
And castration was the new fashion😂😂😂
@AlexanderTheFarmer
2 күн бұрын
@@leonaessens4399 You try to downplay the "m0sl1m" imperialists and slavers. They were in fact worse a million times than the vikings.
Do you know why this aspect of slavery is never taught in schools and universities? Most of the slaves taken were the wrong colour for todays world.
@curtisthomas2670
Жыл бұрын
lt is hardly taught in US schools because white supremacists don't want white children being taught that whites were taken as slaves by non Christian poc
@johnday6392
Жыл бұрын
@@curtisthomas2670 Oh, white ''supremacist'' teachers don't want to relay to white kids that people of their ethnicity were enslaved by black slavers. Well, how about the tens of thousands of black teachers, why don't they tell the white kids the truth about black slavers and white slaves?? Here's another couple of fun facts that i bet they also don't tell the kids, both white AND black in your schools 1 All the slave ships had to do was wait in the West African ports because they knew that the slaves would be captured in the African interior and brought to the coast by slavers ''working'' in the interior. Guess what colour these slavers were? I'll give you a bloody great clue----------- They weren't white! 2 The trans Atlantic slave trade was stopped by the British navy, at a great cost in British lives, until it was finally eradicated. 3 Bonus fun fact---------- The British outlawed slavery in 1807. Saudi Arabia outlawed slavery in 1962!!! (Last time i looked, the Saudis aren't white either).
@badgerattoadhall
Жыл бұрын
1,000,000 Europeans where grabbed by Muslims.
@JJRamos14
Жыл бұрын
@Styliani Their only history?
@Stratoszero
Жыл бұрын
They were just one of the last mass enslavements. And currently still goes on as economic slaves from south east Asia. How long does it take to get over history and not play the victim card?
I live in Cornwall in South West England, my ancestors were kidnapped and enslaved by the village and shipped to Africa by these naughty lot. Reparations...let's go.
@NubiansNapata
9 ай бұрын
Nah. 😂
@dsferns4227
4 күн бұрын
Those couldn't be your ancestors unless they survived and returned to Cornwall. Most slaves died.
As a history scholar, I'm happy to see such great historical productions bring light on this lesser known aspect of human slavery. Well done! Regardless of who we are & where we come from, all human beings should know about the enormous scope & tragic history of slavery & its horrible legacy.
@jacklincoln7786
Жыл бұрын
Slavery still exists in muslim countries
@mohammed9w553
Жыл бұрын
What do arabs and berbers have to do with this ? This all happened under the occupation of the ottoman empire in north africa , the ottomans are the ones who did this , arabs hate the ottoman empire , did you forget they destroyed it ? 🤔
@greenearth9945
Жыл бұрын
As a moroccan I agree. History typically portraits the slave owner as white and the slave as black although slavery existed in every society and every race was guilty of slave ownership and every race have been slaves
@RJT80
Жыл бұрын
There are far better videos on the subject. Like Forgotten History. Lots of inaccuracies here.
@cassiusaetius111
Жыл бұрын
@@greenearth9945 But scale matters doesn't it? These were pirates trading in slavery, at other times, it was multiple nations trading on slavery, so for every slave the pirates got, thousands were taken elsewhere.
If you could trace everyone's lineage all the way back to the Stone Age, you'd most likely find that each of us had an ancestor who was enslaved, and probably at least one ancestor who was either a slave owner or slave trader.
@billybozobaker4144
6 ай бұрын
@thomfiel is right
@wilsonhardy2100
4 ай бұрын
I don’t have to search back very far. We were both slave and master, but over in the pacific islands not the Atlantic side of the world.
@AndreComtois
4 ай бұрын
The cool thing is you literally can trace every single human's lineage back to the stone age. Humans don't spontaneously appear out of nowhere.
@now591
4 ай бұрын
Fact : Only 5% of Americans owned "slaves". Some of this 5% were blacks themselves.
@thomasb.smithjr.8401
3 ай бұрын
@@AndreComtoisDon't tell the Christian Gnostics that ! In their day, they believed Jesus was never born but fully materialized, at age thirty or so, right in front of John The Baptist for baptism. But then again, Jesus was different from you and me ... 😊
As an American we were never taught this in school. Which I think is appalling as it seems to be a rather large part of our history
@arnoldlitke5084
Жыл бұрын
That's true, it was kept secret from the masses because if you knew the real truth of world history you where harder to brain wash, if your harder to brain wash your also harder to control, so in the school systems the teachers teach you only lies after lies as if it was the truth. Most of the world's history is just a bunch of well made up lies.But time always revels the truth no matter what or at what cost. They the asshole liers can't hide the truth forever. Amen to that. Just love this video.😜😜🤔🤔🧐🧐
@BLaCkKsHeEp
Жыл бұрын
LMFAO that's why when you bring this up to the "woke" people, they disregard it. they only know about US slavery, not slavery in other countries... hell, there's still slavery going on in Asia, Africa, EU, Middle East. still happening as we speak lol
@glenngoodall802
Жыл бұрын
As a Brit neither were we My wife only found out when she decided to look up her family History and found out through Parish Records
@wallyreyes2035
Жыл бұрын
Democrats took this out of our history books in the 1960's. Democrats today have Obama's gender fluidity classes in place of real history.
@victorwaddell6530
Жыл бұрын
I learned some of these facts in the late 1970s and early 1980s because I had good history teachers . I learned more when I enlisted into the US Navy in 1985 . Edit . There were some free black men amongst the crew of the US Navy warships that fought the Barbary Pirates .
the fact that slavery is still going on in these regions of the world is even crazier
@testingmysoup5678
2 ай бұрын
In part thanks to the USA
@user-zi5dk3vi6d
2 ай бұрын
@@testingmysoup5678ofc it’s all because of the us for sure for sure
@Evilene52
2 ай бұрын
@@user-zi5dk3vi6d Don't you know that all of the world's problems are because of the US no matter if issues have been ongoing for centuries? Projecting blame for ALL of the worlds wrongs on the US has become fashionable.
@testingmysoup5678
2 ай бұрын
@@user-zi5dk3vi6d slavery reemerging in libya is 100% the fault of the USA
@maryam_4437
Ай бұрын
@@user-zi5dk3vi6d Not just the us , France and England too
More barbary slaves were taken than were taken in ALL of the Americas combined. so when you hear about slavery and reparations in America youre hearing 1/50th of the story from the people who suffered it the least wanting money from people who suffered it the most.
@driver55
3 ай бұрын
Excellent statement. I'm of very mixed races. The older I've become and studying history I see more and more the oldest weapon in history used on humanity. It's Divide & conquer being used by different political factions with their own agendas. ALL peoples have had their turn as oppressor and oppressed. No one owes anyone anything at all. We're humanity on one tree of life and the branches are its different cultures and ethnicities. We need much more like it. I see so much hate on social media. Blessings & thanks for your statement.
@yewknight
Ай бұрын
Do you have a source for this? I am trying to learn more about this lost/erased history.
@Leonkennedy19992
9 күн бұрын
There is no such thing us suffering the least and worst. It varies across countries. But yes you are right that Americans believe slavery was only a issue with them and with a specific race
@kingjam3s540
5 күн бұрын
Causing division is not fir everyone
@Yannickille
2 күн бұрын
Castrated slaves descendents dont complain too much😂😂😂😂
I definitely know why this has been left out of western history books (cause Lord forbid people with a lighter skin tone could have EVER been enslaved by someone from the Middle East or Africa) I’m honestly surprised this hasn’t been taken down. It’s so sad this HUGE part of history has been hidden, and therefore forgotten. Slavery was a human evil, not a white evil. The quicker some people learn that, the quicker we can all move on.
@ok00001
Жыл бұрын
"Was"? There's about 50 million today, according to the ILO, which is probably more than the past 1400 years of trade combined. Demanding an end to this trade is like demanding an end to poverty. The most we can do is minimize its impact.
@alexla7182
Жыл бұрын
The Berbers of North Africa , are white too !!
@mourlyvold64
Жыл бұрын
@@alexla7182 "The Berbers of North Africa , are white too !!" How typical, how desperate. I know a few, shall I ask them if they are?
@alexla7182
Жыл бұрын
@@mourlyvold64 I'm a Berber my Self, and we are whiter than the average Spanish, Italian, Portuguese or even French. There are Arabs in Algeria whom look darker, but generally speaking Berbers are White, white people are not just in Europe Buddy😉😉
@mourlyvold64
Жыл бұрын
@@alexla7182 Very convenient. I'll ask you then, Buddy. Who is "we"? To my knowledge the term 'Berber' covers a whole spectrum of ethnicities, not a monolith racial group. Still I'm pretty sure that if I (a Dutchman) travel to the Maghreb I will clearly stand out everywhere I go, and not solely by my poor sense of fashion. Who is "average" in Spain and Portugal (places I spent years)? Who's an average European, an average 'white'? Most Berbers I know (with some exceptions) are definitely darker than the average Spaniard, especially those from the interior and northern parts. Let alone whites from northern Europe. Those who live in the Netherlands are definitely darker than their average neighbour, diverse in skin tone as they may be amongst themselves. One of those I know makes a clear racial distiction between himself and Dutch indigenous people, and looking at him I can't say I'm surprised he does. I think (by their smiles) most have darker gums too, like a substantial amount of Andaluz people and Iberian Gitanos (who definitely don't consider themselves white, probably more of an ethnic than a racial distinction). I'm not an expert, but your position still surprises me. Depends on what 'whites' you compare yourself to, I guess. I must confess I considered your initial statement more of a political than an antropological one.That may have been some sort of knee-jerk reaction on my part, based on my experiences with pretty disingenuous discourse on the internet. My bad. We (the Dutch) tend to be a bit blunt at times, that's just how it is. Peace.
A fantastic book called "White gold" by Giles Milton is a true story of a cornish boy Thomas Pellow who was captured by barbary pirates and taken to the court of sultan Moulay Ishmael. The sultan took a liking to Thomas and he stayed for 23 years until his escape. A brilliant book and would make one hell of a movie.
@a2bmoving526
Жыл бұрын
It would never be made because you cannot put mulsims in bad light and you can't put whites in a good light.
@frankgesuele6298
Жыл бұрын
Not for today's Hollywood.
@mikehat7652
Жыл бұрын
@Frank Gesuele why do you think anyone would even want that? Brain rot
@camwillsmusic7153
Жыл бұрын
I’m Cornish and heard about Cornish people being kidnapped from fishing villages and towns during this slave trade, destroying the Cornish culture even more, luckily today us Cornish still know who we are and keep onto our culture and are a very proud nationality Kernow bys vyken🟰🟰
@herrero4270
Жыл бұрын
Batter make a novel about the 12 million african slaves, enslaved by Europe and the United States.
This needs to be taught in school. I never knew this until recently. Thank You.
@leonaessens4399
Күн бұрын
You've just been unlucky. You went to an American school, I take it. Everywhere else white slavery has never been "hidden" or kept secret. EVERY ancient society had slaves, and it never had anything to do with colour. In ancient Greece, slaves (overwhelmingly white) outnumbered free citizens.
Interesting how this never gets brought up in schools, and it’s only the Atlantic slave trade we hear about. As a European I was my repetitions
The Barbery pirates definitely did raid England and emptied a number of villages -all along the coasts of Devon and Cornwall the gun emplacements designed to reel them can still be seen. Most people assume they were to repel the French. The estimates of the number of people taken from England go up to as many as two million! They used to say you could buy a white slave in Tangier for the same price as an apple!
@TheMariepi3
Жыл бұрын
Barbary pirates used to raid the coast of Ireland to "capture" young women, who were then sold to harems in Turkey. They used very manoeuvrable boats called xebeques or something similar, which had lateen or triangular sails, which allowed them to sail against the wind, and a part of the sides low enough to use large oars, which allowed them to flee or move in directions that were impossible for the usual boats. One of these ships sank, and strangely, the Barbary pirates were accepted by the Irish as shipwrecked and remained living in Ireland. They even made some raid to Iceland, also to kidnap young women, since women with blond hair and very white skin had a high price in Turkish harems
@helast3916
Жыл бұрын
imagine wanting to kidnap british women
@qwertyuiopasdfghj001
Жыл бұрын
@@helast3916 kek
@incogb6696
Жыл бұрын
I'm North African. most of us besides a few were not involved in this. the difference is it was Ottoman Empire/Europeans enslaving other europeans. Turks, Albanians, Romans, Greek, they left berber girls alone in the mountains. I was reading and it seemed like we weren’t into them. We did like Saudis though the Romans were extra brutal bc they used their slaves for both work and elsewhere. You have to think about the quality of standard each provides, and contextually understand most of these women sold themselves (Read: The European Myth of White Slavery) it’s very annoying to deal with The number provided at the end is proved to be artificial.
@incogb6696
Жыл бұрын
@@helast3916 I know these fallacies are beating a dead horse. It’s British women in African countries the same number as British men.
A couple of points, Barbary Corsairs main focus was referred to as white gold! White slaves. The term Corsair actually refers to a pirate who is contracted by a state to engage in their activities on their behalf, effectively plausible deniability. The scale of their activities can only be alluded to by one raid on the island of Gozo, 6000 slaves were captured and transported. Just the scale of how many Corsairs would be needed to capture apprehend and transport this many people.English towns were raided constantly, many smaller settlements were evacuated and abandoned. The island of Lundy was for a time used by the pirates as base for their operation. The city of Dublin was founded as a slave market for captives taken in Britain and Ireland. This trade continued until recent years slave markets were closed by Italian troops in the early 1900’s. One other aside a town in Britain was raided and the population taken to slave markets in Africa Lord Cromwell sent his general of ships to bring them back, when they arrived they demanded release of their countrymen. On being refused they bombarded the town virtually destroying it, moving to the next town where enslaved people were held, the demand was met by an immediate release of the enslaved British people.
@Justin.Martyr
Жыл бұрын
*& Lord Jesus was Right there to HeLp them!!!!*
@DJWESG1
Жыл бұрын
In Britain they were called privateers.
@murkywaters1931
Жыл бұрын
This lord Cromwell fellow sounds like a man after my own heart.
@brianpeck4035
Жыл бұрын
@@murkywaters1931 His head was found in an attic a few decades ago.
@jimbobjimjim6500
Жыл бұрын
Dublin was founded by Vikings for slaves, long before the Barbary pirates.
4:02 "Many were Europeans" - That's a misleading comment. Pirates such as Barbarossa (who was the son of a Turk) were Muslims or Jews who were expelled from the Iberian Peninsula after its reconquest by the actual Europeans. Barbarossa's delegates were also Jews (not Europeans).
I went to public school in some school in north africa during the 1990s A similar story was told us by our excellent history teacher, but with time i realised this guy was more dreamer, a romantic or just another ideologue than a true historian, as the terms of this part of history were inverted: the corsairs were the europeans, the merchants and genuine sailors were the north africans, who fought bravely against the malevolent pirates ... I started learning the truth with the coming of computers and internet in late 1990s, and this technology, mastered by those who act to establish and spread honest and objective information, is a bless for the futur of mankind and peace Worst crimes and worst wars can't exist under the light of truth and objective information, so go on historians and journalists, do the right job
@purdyaldebaran
2 ай бұрын
Wow! Yikes
@patrickporter1864
2 ай бұрын
The Knights of Malta were an anti corsair naval force in the 16th and 17th century. They raided the north african coast in retaliation for corsair raids and took north african ships. They were not beyond selling slaves themselves.
History is not so much forgotten as it is ignored in favor of other more politically expedient narratives.
@haskenvonbern5404
Жыл бұрын
Very true, otherwise these narratives would not be as easily come by
@seanrodgers1839
Жыл бұрын
People prefer their fantasies instead of truth.
@jennydonnelly4436
Жыл бұрын
And have history nights..
@jennydonnelly4436
Жыл бұрын
History is just not for the next generation " love Island,cosmetics...vain looks being a model,rich footballer!!! Looking back in history the barbaric,hardship,horrifying life's.. so just to bring you back down to know..how lucky we are..And that's not even the 16yr olds in 2 world wars!! I'm so passionate to have evening with my 19 and 17yr old sons and have history cos nights night in...they love it..keep them balanced to know their lives are great..." love it"
@canofsouls282
Жыл бұрын
Except they didint enslave people based off a racial narrative, subjugate countries than impose rule while simultaneously take as much as you can, it’s not a “narrative” every kid knows that slavery was something that occurred in every civilization, the difference was that one group made it their mission being the worst at it.
The Barbary Pirates raided South and West coasts of England, Wales and Ireland. The song "Rule Britannia" was written to celebrate the Royal Navy clearing the seas around Britain of these state-sponsored slavers, and an exhortation to "rule the waves" to make sure that Britons"never shall be slaves" Right-on commentators today like to associate the song with colonialism and black slavery, whereas it's a call to anti slave actions. And who was responsible for crushing the slave trade internationally? Yeah, the Royal Navy. Rule Britannia! God Save the King.
@maximumeffort5182
Жыл бұрын
Good to see someone knowing the true meaning of that song
@incogb6696
Жыл бұрын
I'm North African. most of us besides a few were not involved in this. the difference is it was Ottoman Empire/Europeans enslaving other europeans. Turks, Albanians, Romans, Greek, they left berber girls alone in the mountains. I was reading and it seemed like we weren’t into them. We did like Saudis though the Romans were extra brutal bc they used their slaves for both work and elsewhere. You have to think about the quality of standard each provides, and contextually understand most of these women sold themselves (Read: The European Myth of White Slavery) it’s very annoying to deal with The number provided at the end is proved to be artificial.
@jed-henrywitkowski6470
Жыл бұрын
And who was responsible for putting said, in check? The United States Navy. God Bless America!
@subashira
Жыл бұрын
@@jed-henrywitkowski6470 It was a multi-party effort wtf are you talking about.
@josm1481
Жыл бұрын
@@incogb6696 yes, you've posted that lie all over. Britain forced Morocco and Egypt to stop slaving and it was an English advisor to the Algerian king that pushed him to abolish slavery. Slavery is Islamic. Stop lying?
I am a Berber from Morocco we don't study this history, but I can tell you Berbers today are among the nicest people you will ever meet. We are multi racial extending from Africa to Europe in ethnicity.
@mailman63155
Жыл бұрын
Which shows how cultures evolve.
@Justin.Martyr
Жыл бұрын
*MoHamAK
@user-ob6mj4bu8e
4 ай бұрын
الطف الناس مع الاجانب لكن مع ابناء اوطانكم العكس
@yubakrarai
4 ай бұрын
@@user-ob6mj4bu8e Hadok f3aylkom.
@gmailyou367
4 ай бұрын
The thing is that ottomans did Thai but ottomans never entered Morocco
Ready To Hazard is an interesting biography written about my 7th great uncle. His relationships with the bey of Constantinople and sultan of Tripoli, subsequent Tripolitan imprisonment and liberation by the Marines. There's more than that, but those are the points of order. They actually named naval warships after him. The destroyer in CPT Phillips, for example.
The entire village of Baltimore in Ireland, was taken by the Barbary Pirates. The Barbary Pirates also raided the coasts of Britain and as far north as Iceland.
@eileencoulter6263
Жыл бұрын
Yep before they started trading in the African people,the Irish have been traded to all parts of the world,but said to say because they were white their voice and history is not told ,its like being white dosent count in this world
@cockoffgewgle4993
Жыл бұрын
They took tens of thousands of Brits, at the very least. And they treated their slaves worse than America and co did. Castrating men and boys was common practice.
@BringDHouseDown
Жыл бұрын
@@cockoffgewgle4993 it's Islam, what did you expect. The number of slaves in total were in the millions, and far greater than even black slaves, but that's the part of history that isn't tauhgt...that and we had been dealing with them since 600 AD. the number of dead men and boys, and the number of women ...you know .... is astronomical, concervative estimate is around 60 million dead.
@cockoffgewgle4993
Жыл бұрын
@@BringDHouseDown It wasn't greater than the number of black slaves. Central and sub-Saharan Africa had far more slaves. They had more domestically than they sold to the west and the Arabs. They enslaved their own. And they also treated them worse than the west. They ritually sacrificed them, for example.
@i_wouldprefer_not_to1196
Жыл бұрын
😢...your country is in danger as is ours (England). I fear for the future of all of our lands in Europe as an English born descendant of Irish and Scottish folk (probably Welsh too). Our governments continue to betray us!
This is largely forgotten history. Thanks for covering it.
@Moodymongul
Жыл бұрын
Sadly, purposely Forgotten. By peoples who won't confront their own history.
@GUIGuyify
Жыл бұрын
Hardly forgotten in Ireland… the raids were a basic part of our history lessons in school
@dahveed284
Жыл бұрын
@@GUIGuyify Irish history wasn’t covered well in our schools in Texas. And I didn’t see anything about this when I visited there this summer. So it’s always good to learn about something seldom mentioned these days.
@dahveed284
Жыл бұрын
@@Moodymongul It does run somewhat counter to the narrative being pushed these days. History is seldom clear-cut.
@BLaCkKsHeEp
Жыл бұрын
@@dahveed284 i think its impossible to cover history in whole. takes years and years to learn all the stuff that happened over thousands of years ago
I am so glad the US and Sweden worked together to stop the brutality of the pirates and slavery.
@user-lb8bg6kj9m
7 ай бұрын
US itself was grabbing slaves from Africa while European countries were enslaving the world during that time. It was basically pirate vs pirate.
@rarefruit2320
2 ай бұрын
US is the largest pirate organization in the world
@Yannickille
2 күн бұрын
😂😂😂😂
Thank you for sharing this.
You mention in your video that Barbery Pirates kept clear of European coastline when in fact they raided Cornwall in England many times plus further up the English Chanel including the French coast Holland Norway as far as Iceland. My wife had a Great Great Great Grandmother who was taken in 1842 from Cornwall as a 21-year-old girl in a raid and sold as a concubine in Tangiers she was kept as a slave until bought by the Vatican in 1846 she had been made pregnant three times (Raped) she returned home Brocken and ill she died in 1848, 27 years old, she did get married and had a daughter a distant relative of my wife. She was quite shocked when she found out.
@nzmanhdee6246
Жыл бұрын
So that means she had kids in Morocco?
@adama9798
Жыл бұрын
Fascinating story. Rip to all the ones who were left behind and weren’t saved. What a miserable existence it must have been.
@suzettemiller9444
Жыл бұрын
Fascinating but sad, thanks for sharing.
@pablogats4627
Жыл бұрын
History about to repeat itself sigh
@paulfri1569
Жыл бұрын
Rip
I’m so glad this aspect of slavery is being covered now, as it’s never covered in school.
@fightfish3265
Жыл бұрын
you need a better school.
@crespoopserc
Жыл бұрын
Yes you need a better school. You’re a simpleton.
@scottdoesntmatter4409
Жыл бұрын
Bear in mind that it was Islam who sold slaves into the Atlantic slave trade, and Islam continues to practice slavery today, since it's a part of the religion. This is not an exaggeration, its in their Hadiths and Quran. The goal is to enslave non Muslims, as in anyone who won't convert.
@vladimirmomperousse4340
Жыл бұрын
They hid it because white people were slaves
@phuckpootube6231
Жыл бұрын
@@fightfish3265 Or a more enquiring mind to learn of their own accord.
but but the tv said only blacks were slaves
@patrickporter1864
2 ай бұрын
Yes in the americas.
@eyeshalfwayopeneyeshalfway2603
9 күн бұрын
lol
@kingjam3s540
5 күн бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂Because we are enslaved by your people this time mentally not physically
Just to correct an assumption, the early greeks and romans already knew how to tack into wind with their square sails, but to gain ramming speed or escape such an attack, rowing was needed. Also handy for wind calm days which are common in the Mediterranean.
Absolutely great presentation. As someone from West Africa, i feel this is a part of history that is not often talked about, and has mostly been ignored. Thank you for shedding light on this Keep up the good work..
@aqualix7642
Жыл бұрын
I'm of West African decent I like history and hate the fact that so much is hidden or rarely mentioned
@azzking9305
Жыл бұрын
Because it goes against the whitey is a bad narrative
@tundrazzr3659
Жыл бұрын
You want to know the craziest thing about the Barbary pirates? That were most certainly black! Do not be fooled the troves a fake modern art in this video. Most art prior to the 1850s prove that the real barbers were Dark skinned North-Africans, not the mixed race and Turkish people we see through the middle east today! They would of had the completion of modern southern indian-asian peoples
@tundrazzr3659
Жыл бұрын
Also real African's (sub-Saharan) only took Africans as slaves during the Atlantic-slave trades, to sell to the whites, under white influence. Africans NEVER took slaves for themselves! That's a lie! Note the "Africans" they show at 9:53 are NOT Africans they are in fact Black-Muslims. What need would Sub-Saharan Africans have for slaves, besides selling to the whites! No mass agriculture or labor in SS Africa and even if their was, unlike white bodies blacks can handle hard labor under the sun, and would gladly get paid for it. Do some research for yourself please. As the old verbiage goes, history is written by the winners.
@speentje6268
Жыл бұрын
@@tundrazzr3659 No they weren't. They were Berbers, Arabs and Turks. I'm From Europe, all three are present here today. They are definitely NOT black haha.
One of the first two US Senators from Florida, appointed in 1845, was the grandson of an enslaved Jewish-British maiden and the local sheik who bought her for his harem. She managed to escape with her 4 year old son and were rescued and made their way to the West Indies and later to Florida. The boy grew up to become a wealthy planter, and his son, ironically, owned slaves as his grandmother had been owned. So David Levy Yulee became the first Jewish member of the US Senate, and was also one quarter Arab. Levy County and the city of Yulee were named for him.
@jeraldmacklinii6440
Жыл бұрын
So sad
@gurglejug627
Жыл бұрын
Yep, you can take an A-rab or a J-rab out of the sand...
@matthillard9363
Жыл бұрын
What a story
@evillink1
Жыл бұрын
What a roller-coaster that was lol
@elizabethmurphy2308
Жыл бұрын
I'm very curios where you got this story from. I live close to Yulee and have relatives who live there. I have never heard this story. If you research him it never says anything of the such. He was born in St. Thomas and moved to Fl as a child. Yes, he was Jewish and of Morrocan decent but his father was a Morracan Jew who lived in St. Thomas... not a Sultan. Sure its an interesting story but it sounds more like fantasy than fact. If you have documentation to support it, I think you should submit it to the Yulee Historic Council. Have a great day!
The Barbary pirates were no joke. To this day there are areas of Europe's coast where the population still hasn't fully recovered their past sizes from slave raids. It wasn't until France invaded Algeria that the Barbary pirates were finally stopped.
As a Croatian, we were the main enslaved by the Turks, one of the main slaves from the Barbary slave trade, Asians from the ghengis period came, and we never owned slaves in America. Yet, I have white skin (tan but white still) and I am blamed for owning slaves lol.
Captain James Riley wrote an incredible story of survival called Skeletons on the Zahara. He was ship wrecked and against all odds survived along with 6 of his crew members. Gives great historical context of the Sahara slave trade in 1816.
@leechapa7279
Жыл бұрын
I'm going to have to find and read that book. Thanks.
@ambermyers1330
Жыл бұрын
Thank you 🙏🏻
@k3D4rsi554maq
Жыл бұрын
Indeed!
@torikeqi8710
Жыл бұрын
Some of the most famous Barbary pirates were Albanians and the author didn't even mention them, much more important than arabs and other europans ( there was Barely any greek privateer btw) and these are Oruc Reis and Hayreddin Barbarossa ( yes he was albanian) and they were brothers, Mimar Arnaut and Murat Reis dhe Elder. These are the 4 most famous but there are many others. Oruc Reis conquered Algeria and seded it to the Ottoman Empire while Barbarossa took over Tunisia later on.
@simonshiels1
Жыл бұрын
@@torikeqi8710 thx for that.....they are still heavily involved in slavery....sorry human trafficking!
We covered this briefly in school. I’ve learned about a thousand times more about history on my own than I learned in school, but I still learned a lot from this video.
@gups4963
Жыл бұрын
They are hesitant to go into depth on this subject as it screws with certain narratives today
@stevelux9854
Жыл бұрын
Never let schooling interfere with your education.
@incogb6696
Жыл бұрын
I'm North African. most of us besides a few were not involved in this. the difference is it was Ottoman Empire/Europeans enslaving other europeans. Turks, Albanians, Romans, Greek, they left berber girls alone in the mountains. I was reading and it seemed like we weren’t into them. We did like Saudis though the Romans were extra brutal bc they used their slaves for both work and elsewhere. You have to think about the quality of standard each provides, and contextually understand most of these women sold themselves (Read: The European Myth of White Slavery) it’s very annoying to deal with The number provided at the end is proved to be artificial.
@gups4963
Жыл бұрын
@@incogb6696 Next you'll tell me the Armenian genocide never happened. Islam has always had respect for the Khafir it pushed into slavery lol
@ibrahimghibihisab8913
Жыл бұрын
@@gups4963 fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 never ends for disbelievers
1.5 million over 200 years, totally discounting the occupation of Greece by the Ottomans for 400- 600 years and the occupation of Spain for a similar period! White southern European slavery has never been truly investigated because our neighbours don't like being reminded that it occurred.
@RoulicisThe
6 ай бұрын
The video is about "Barbary Slavery" specifically, hence the part were the berbers directly took part in it. They weren't always part of the Ottoman Empire, thus what happened due to the Ottoman Empire Itself (and turks alone, prior to the creation of said Empire) doesn't count in this specific case-study. If you start taking into account all the slaving activities performed by the Ottoman Empire, not just against European but against black people, Persians and some countries of Asia... Especially when you consider that some of these countries ended up conquered into the Ottoman Empire, and thus became an "in-empire" traffic... Yeah, 1.5 Million is just a drop in the bucket >
@chrischris8550
6 ай бұрын
@@RoulicisThe You forget these people first conquered Spain for many hundreds of years and kept a traditional system of slavery that perpetuates to this day! The only time they weren't in sync with their Ottoman neighbours is when it didn't financially suit them! Unfortunately for our Eastern neighbours, that mentality still runs deep in their society. You could call ISIS a drop in the ocean, but if they were more organized, you would see their true face!
Every American should be forced to watch grapes of wrath to talk about the horrible suffering the Caucasian Americans have suffered since 1700 in this country
I went to school in the 80s this part of history was never mentioned however I did know the reason for the Marine Corps sword came from fighting pirates near Tripoli. Great video. keep doing what you’re doing
@vigilantobserver8389
Жыл бұрын
The Marmaluk sword. Marines know of this tradition we'll.
@incogb6696
Жыл бұрын
I'm North African. most of us besides a few were not involved in this. the difference is it was Ottoman Empire/Europeans enslaving other europeans. Turks, Albanians, Romans, Greek, they left berber girls alone in the mountains. I was reading and it seemed like we weren’t into them. We did like Saudis though the Romans were extra brutal bc they used their slaves for both work and elsewhere. You have to think about the quality of standard each provides, and contextually understand most of these women sold themselves (Read: The European Myth of White Slavery) it’s very annoying to deal with The number provided at the end is proved to be artificial.
@ibrahimghibihisab8913
Жыл бұрын
@@incogb6696 fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 never ends for disbelievers
@ibrahimghibihisab8913
Жыл бұрын
@@vigilantobserver8389 tattoo not allowed
@ibrahimghibihisab8913
Жыл бұрын
Fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 never ends for disbelievers
The Barbary pirates took prisoners as far away as Iceland. Voices of the Past covers the first hand account of the Icelandic people that were taken back to Africa.
@juliaj7939
Жыл бұрын
I remember that.
@mohammed9w553
Жыл бұрын
What do arabs and berbers have to do with this ? This all happened under the occupation of the ottoman empire in north africa , the ottomans are the ones who did this , arabs hate the ottoman empire , did you forget they destroyed it ? 🤔
Imagine you were a tourist from a far kingdom, minding his own leisure business, then suddenly happen to be caught in a raid or war between kingdoms. You survived but was taken as a slave albeit not having any connection with any of the two warring sides...
Would be interested if we had a movie about this. To show that slavery isn’t just black people as oppressed victims and “the white man” as the villain.
@subutaynoyan5372
3 ай бұрын
Slavery was everywhere in old world, the problem with American slavery is that it was a racial thing. Mediterranean slavery was more about religious groups, and before Christianity and Islam, it was based upon from which land you were. It wasn't as severe as American slavery, it didn't rely on work as much either. There're records of Osman of Temeshvar, a Turk who was captured and enslaved by Austrians in 17th century for example, his depictions reflect that it was cruel, but not necessarily malevolent to be a "captive" as they called it. Turks, Arabs, Barbers and Christians all had a general understanding of customs in between, and these slaves could be worked as house slaves, land tillers, and even as militas. It was well documented, regulated and all And the otherside, was even more regulated, Ottomans had very complex law and regulations about slave status, you could be enslaved, only to be the goddamn Vezir-i Azam of the entire empire, which is a rank second only to Sultan himself. Wheras American slavery, was just using West Africans, enforcing them into a horrific life for cheap labour, and then also justifying it culturally, claiming to bring civilisation, and never accepting Africans as humans that deserve equal worth to "whites" Barbaros Hayreddin Pasha, the grand admiral of Ottomans, and a damn greatest privateer of his day, has a memoir, you can really see that, muslims and christians(Mainly Spaniards) in 16th century, weren't that different than eachother and they could easily trade, and speak a common tongue, and have similar customs And more importantly, when the St. John's Knights of Rhodes captured his brother Hızır, Hayreddin himself says that he heard that Christian knights urged their grand master to not be so cruel to the man, because itwas seafarer's life and any one of them can be captives to the muslims, and dishonoring people is against Jesus' teachings
@Philosophicalblackman
2 ай бұрын
@oscarh-ef7zzdo you know how many African Americans are descendants of sexually assaulted ancestors at the hands of European men? If you found out you'd probably blow a fuse.
@Nobodydefinitelynotsomebody
2 ай бұрын
@@PhilosophicalblackmanEuropeans don't sexually assault. Stop projecting. That never happens.
@Philosophicalblackman
2 ай бұрын
@@Nobodydefinitelynotsomebody I sincerely hope this is a joke
@Nobodydefinitelynotsomebody
2 ай бұрын
@@Philosophicalblackman no it's not. They are not known for this. In fact in their society it was extremely rare.
Just a bit on galley operation - the "galley slave" who lived and died at their oar is largely a work of fiction. Rowing a galley is extremely strenuous. Galley operators typically had shifts of rowers and they had to be well fed. Even those who were working under enslavement were well fed and had relief. It was entirely impractical to work a man to death especially on warships and pirate vessels. A galley operated by a single shift of starving chained rowers would be barely functional and ships with military and bandit intent had to be fast and efficient.
@cchickenpasta
Жыл бұрын
Highly dramatized US POV of the berber pirates. utterly antagonistic towards them.
@cchickenpasta
Жыл бұрын
not realizing these berber pirates were praised among the NA region
@burnsloads
Жыл бұрын
I've heard that exact same argument from holocaust deniers.
@edu.santos
Жыл бұрын
So are vikings. They all did horrible things but it's history
@nickgov66
Жыл бұрын
Ben Hur got it right, you didn't stop being a galley slave when unchained from the oar, you were chucked into the ship's hold to recover and replaced with a fresher slave. Just think about horses 🐎, they do not stop being horses when you stop riding them.
the Royal Navy saw a massive rejuvenation largely due to the impact of the Barbary Corsairs during the mid 1600's, as the impact of the civil wars gave way to the impact of the pirates. The Royal Navy continued to expand its combat operations to the point where, alongside the Dutch Royal Navy and the French Royal Navy, there was little to no Barbary piracy in the North and Irish seas. In turn, the economic reliance of Britain on the Mediterranean saw the RN maintain a permanent presence there to this day (such as Gibraltar, Malta, etc). While it was not as aggressive in land combat (the British Army was more occupied with issues elsewhere in the world), the RN was constantly active in the Mediterranean, Africa and the Home Fleet to destroy the scourge of piracy close to them, not to mention the piracy operations undertaken farther afield (such as in the Caribbean and Pacific). Hence why the RN had a permanent role throughout its history, whereas for a long time armies would be disbanded between wars.
@davidwood5647
Жыл бұрын
Four centuries on , they are still rubbish .
@incogb6696
Жыл бұрын
I'm North African. most of us besides a few were not involved in this. the difference is it was Ottoman Empire/Europeans enslaving other europeans. Turks, Albanians, Romans, Greek, they left berber girls alone in the mountains. I was reading and it seemed like we weren’t into them. We did like Saudis though the Romans were extra brutal bc they used their slaves for both work and elsewhere. You have to think about the quality of standard each provides, and contextually understand most of these women sold themselves (Read: The European Myth of White Slavery) it’s very annoying to deal with The number provided at the end is proved to be artificial.
@davidwood5647
Жыл бұрын
@@incogb6696 Why are you apologizing ?
@incogb6696
Жыл бұрын
@@davidwood5647 maybe u didn’t read😎
@stephena1196
Жыл бұрын
Many Cornish fishermen were taken from their fishing boats by Barbary pirates. "Ship money" was traditionally levied on coastal counties, formerly in times of war. It wasn't strictly speaking a tax so didn't need to be approved by parliament. Charles 1st levied it in peace time too and inland counties also had to pay, ostensively to be used to counter piracy, but the King keep the money for himself. This was very unpopular and one of the things which led to the English Civil War.
The Barbary Slave Trade is an inconvenient truth for the modern narrative of slavery that only highlights cases of Whites enslaving non-Whites. But here it was 1.5 million Whites were kidnapped and enslaved by non-Whites, with raids going as far up as Iceland and Ireland. As the video mentions, the women were sorted by attractiveness. The paler skin of Europeans, especially if you took them from somewhere like Iceland or Ireland, was seen as more exotic for North Africa and the Middle East, so they were in more demand. So yes, this was racial slavery.
@AhmedYusef87
Ай бұрын
Why did u leave out the Vikings role? Viking raids in Western Europe, such as Ireland, could be sold to Moorish Spain via the Dublin slave trade or transported to Hedeby or Brännö and from there via the Volga trade route to present day Russia, where slaves and furs were sold to Muslim merchants in exchange for Arab silver ...
Won’t be hearing about this 24 hours a day nonstop in media and other venues😊
Barbary pirates did raid British coastal towns in the English channel and even sailed into the mouth of the River Thames in the early C17th. Barbary pirates reached as far north as Iceland. The Anglo-Dutch bombardment of Algiers in 1816 was a much bigger operation than US activity in the area. Contrary to the impression given by this video, piracy along the north African coast was finally halted by the French occupation of Algeria and Tunisia.
@mohammed9w553
Жыл бұрын
What do arabs and berbers have to do with this ? This all happened under the occupation of the ottoman empire in north africa , the ottomans are the ones who did this , arabs hate the ottoman empire , did you forget they destroyed it ? 🤔
@marie-joelleraussou
Жыл бұрын
That is the exact thing that noone wants to hear, and definitely not the algerians!
@onlinegladiator5888
Жыл бұрын
@@marie-joelleraussouI dont think Algerians really care whether or not people know about this because they know that this happened hundreds of years ago and slavery/piracy was widespread across the world
@Mgt461
Жыл бұрын
@lee_9837 please explain your comment about British racial hierarchy. Thanks
@impyrobot
Жыл бұрын
@@marie-joelleraussou most Algerians are proud of their history
I remember doing about this in high school, we did a whole term on slavery actually, around the world. Because of that I've never understood this modern confusion that seems to be going around. As though it just happened and we should all be shamed for it. That's what confuses me...
@chrisoakley5830
Жыл бұрын
Slavery has existed worldwide since the beginning of time but shaming Americans about their part in it is big business and there you have the answer for your confusion.
@KSmithwick1989
Жыл бұрын
@@chrisoakley5830 Granted, it's often from a US perspective. And personal freedom is regarded as a corner stone of the nation. The fact we didn't abide by said concept. Purely because economic purpose connected to the elite. Is why the issue is often brought up and debated.
@user-iu4dq6wm1t
Жыл бұрын
@@chrisoakley5830 I think people go between extremes with this, either they act like America is pure evil for it's history of slavery or they act as though it was no different from any other civilisation that practiced it. There are some particularities about American slavery that did make it worse, such as the industrial scale, racial component and how there was a more persistent slave class. Slaves in the Middle East were generally integrated into wider society quite easily within a few generations hence why there is no significant white or black populations that view themselves distance from wider society there like there is in America with African Americans.
@Jinkypigs
Жыл бұрын
Doesn't mean you dudes didn't play your part in it nor did a lit of harm ad well. And how many Africans you imported And treated badly and inhumanity.
@serif392
Жыл бұрын
@@user-iu4dq6wm1t Arab slavery was the worst. And they castrated almost all the males. Two thirds bled to death. Many more millions over 800 years and longer were marched to the Arabic lands than were shipped in the Atlantic Slave Trade. Female slaves who were raped by their owner would often fall pregnant. Sometimes if the child born was a son the father would accept the child and rear him openly as an heir.
You’re all welcome people( blacks, Indian, Indonesian, Chinese, etc) who were enslaved by the white Europeans. We have retaliated for all of you guys, I hope you appreciated is. Greetings from a Moroccan berber/ amazigh
@Haudenosaunee22
12 күн бұрын
This was all before European expansion!
@Haudenosaunee22
12 күн бұрын
Single digit iq vibes!!
I feel the pain from my white enslaved European ancestors and we demand reparation. Unfortunately American history doesn't tell the whole story. So much untrue facts in American history
@fruitsarelife7073
7 ай бұрын
Whites litteraly pump out the resources from everyone. You have more than reparations.
I never cease to be amazed at the American view of history. 600 people were abducted by the corsairs from Looe in Cornwall. Most white slaves were taken to Morocco to build the palace of Meknes. The Royal Navy eventually attacked the corsairs of Algeria and bombarded them into submission. The last major slave market was shut down in 1962 and was located in Mecca. JFK told the Saudis to close it.
@gurglejug627
Жыл бұрын
And slavery still wasn't illegal there until the 1980s iirc. And still goes on all over Africa, just as indentured labour goes on all over Arab countries - all tolerated by the 'freedom loving' UN/US as it suits them politically. The media lambasts Russia daily, but doesn't give a toss about slavery.
@raimohoft1236
Жыл бұрын
Still trading... white virgin underage fair skinned and haired girls still worth their body weight in silver and gold.
@echo5226
Жыл бұрын
Public slave markets still exist in Libya. They kidnap people traveling through Libya from South of the Sahara. There was a documentary where they were interviewing captured people. It was all in plain sight. Nothing was hidden.
@lucio989
Жыл бұрын
So what's the view? Is 600 not too many?
@princeofkernow9875
Жыл бұрын
@@lucio989 Okay here the size of Looe in 1870 population 5,665. so over 10% take...how about the dead.
So glad you guys covered this part of history!
@BLaCkKsHeEp
Жыл бұрын
VERY INFORMATIVE (as i only keep hearing about one kind of slavery when history is filled with it. still going on today)
@incogb6696
Жыл бұрын
I'm North African. most of us besides a few were not involved in this. the difference is it was Ottoman Empire/Europeans enslaving other europeans. Turks, Albanians, Romans, Greek, they left berber girls alone in the mountains. I was reading and it seemed like we weren’t into them. We did like Saudis though the Romans were extra brutal bc they used their slaves for both work and elsewhere. You have to think about the quality of standard each provides, and contextually understand most of these women sold themselves (Read: The European Myth of White Slavery) it’s very annoying to deal with The number provided at the end is proved to be artificial.
@RandomNorwegianGuy.
Жыл бұрын
@@incogb6696 Basically how African was brought into the Atlantic slave trade. They were enslaved by fellow Blacks and sold to very few rich White sailors. Yet the whole European race is getting the blame somehow for the whole Atlantic slave trade. It is time your kind take responsibility for the slave trade your kind mingled with to make it fair
@gmailyou367
4 ай бұрын
But it’s not accurate 😂 the berbers are not the ones who used slave but the ottomans and Arabs 😂 and by the way ottomans never entered Morocco 😂 north africa doesn’t have the same history 😂 Morocco and Algeria doesn’t have the same history 😂 berbers were also invaded by Arabs Muslims
The word Berber does indeed share it's etymology with the word barbarian. Both of which come from the ancient Greeks and their use of a similar sounding term to describe any non-Greek speaking peoples.
Great channel...I just subscribed. Thank you!!
Mounts Bay in Cornwall was one of many English villages on the coast raided. 60 men were taken on just one raid. Many were taken at other times, plus of course during nearly 400 years of Roman occupation thousands were enslaved.
@pennywise146
Жыл бұрын
But do we cry about it and ask for “reparations”…..?
@helast3916
Жыл бұрын
The romans do not count because these were bretons, modern english people are descendants of saxons,angles,vikings and the english lenguage is heavily influenced by normans that are just french
@Roblambertbooks
Жыл бұрын
@@helast3916 it’s still slavey, which is the subject.
@incogb6696
Жыл бұрын
I'm North African. most of us besides a few were not involved in this. the difference is it was Ottoman Empire/Europeans enslaving other europeans. Turks, Albanians, Romans, Greek, they left berber girls alone in the mountains. Romans were the most brutal as they used their slaves for various reasons. Probably most similar to American
@djswaleswritesbooks2213
Жыл бұрын
@@incogb6696 Many well-known pirates were converted European Muslims but Imperial Meknes and cities across the Maghreb had many slaves and active slave markets. The accounts are there to read. Further from Maghreb, Cairo was founded by a Sicilian-Greek slave general who was property of Fatimid Tunisia. Many examples exist.
I don't remember this part In my world history class - amazing how they pick and choose what to teach enquiring minds
@21DaHoagie12
14 күн бұрын
Gotta keep certain demographics on the metaphorical plantation of victimhood so they can play savior and remain in power 😂
In the book skull and Saltire it mentions a Scottish woman who was kidnapped by Barbary pirates on her way to North America, she was sold to a rich merchant and gifted to the Sultan of Morroco who made the Scottish woman Helen Empress of Morroco because of her beauty.
WHY DID SLAVERY END? simple It wasn't the kindness of our hearts, it was the invention of machines. I am not saying kindness wasn't a part of ending slavery, I am saying that machines replaced the slaves mostly, further giving the push to ending slavery
Don't worry, the slave trade is flourishing in Libya once again.
@SergyMilitaryRankings
Жыл бұрын
That's what happens when you don't have a plan after taking down a tyrannical government
@gurglejug627
Жыл бұрын
Yep, thanks to the US, UK and France for that one, impoverishing a nation flourishing under Ghaddafi, who also kept vast numbers of 'refugees' from coming to Europe.
@curtisthomas2670
Жыл бұрын
The regime in Saudi Arabia is far more tyrannical than any in the Middle East, Africa or Asia, yet Western nations are cozy with them even though they sicced Al Qaeda, Taliban and numerous terrist groups upon the world
@user-dr7ru8pm3d
Жыл бұрын
Headed by the West and the European Mafia
@Osminoqtos
Жыл бұрын
And maybe in Russia too :(
" Death is the only freedom a slave knows, that's why he's not afraid of it, - that's why we'll win " - 'Spartacus' 1960.
@bg7606
Жыл бұрын
Spartacus lost. Badly
@pablogats4627
Жыл бұрын
@@bg7606 he dared to be free unlike others in history
@tonyprice2256
Жыл бұрын
@@bg7606 If you are a slave, you should fight because you win either way. Obviously, if you are victorious you win, but even if you die, you win. Because death is a better fate than the life of a slave.
@SergyMilitaryRankings
Жыл бұрын
@@tonyprice2256 not always.
@tonyprice2256
Жыл бұрын
@@SergyMilitaryRankings Well those of us who are still alive by the year 2030 will find out what modern day slavery is all about, unless of course, you are already a happy slave.
Modern Americans would be very upset hearing that slaves weren't only black people and slavery existed for more than 300 years and not just in America. If they could read that is.
Thanks for the wonderful information.
I was never an official history student, but I have read widely and listened to many people from different backgrounds around the world. The janissary of the Ottoman empire were mostly the children of Christians, abducted very young, even just off their mother's milk. This is one of the reasons that many Christians converted to Islam, because Muslims tended to not enslave othe Muslims. They would also not abduct girls from Muslim families.
@jackwalker1822
Жыл бұрын
That is inconvenient history to our modern world.
@javenradt1314
Жыл бұрын
@@jackwalker1822 I spy with my little eye a town beginning with T
@karlheinzvonkroemann2217
Жыл бұрын
They were Christians from the Balkans. It wasn't a multi-cultural outfit.
@hawk-eye654
Жыл бұрын
Don't believe everything you have read. Becoming a janissary had a certain protocol. They didn't take babies :). Come on!!. They were not that dumb. What the hell are you gonna do with babies? It's not practical. But it sounds horrible right. and you believed it. Janissaries mostly come from certain countries( Albania for example). The family had to have more than one boy. That boy had to pass certain conditions. Age, looks(yes they even had categories for looks), and health. and most importantly boy has to be obedient. They don't take boys from unruly families. Janissaries were most of the time were loyal. Turks were dying to become janissaries because the pay was good. But they didn't take any Muslim children. Sultan wanted an army without any ties (family, cult, or city). They were first taken to a Turkish family( family without children ). After a certain age, they were sent to military training. if the boy was smart they would become a government official else he would become a janissary. Don't look into the past with today's mindset
@jamesloring7186
Жыл бұрын
@@hawk-eye654 it is a historical fact vetted by various sources, not babies ,Male children of single digit age
Outstanding production and superb narration. The outline of the historic event is presented in fact base, and in an interesting and engaging story. Really well done!
@incogb6696
Жыл бұрын
I'm North African. most of us besides a few were not involved in this. the difference is it was Ottoman Empire/Europeans enslaving other europeans. Turks, Albanians, Romans, Greek, they left berber girls alone in the mountains. I was reading and it seemed like we weren’t into them. We did like Saudis though the Romans were extra brutal bc they used their slaves for both work and elsewhere. You have to think about the quality of standard each provides, and contextually understand most of these women sold themselves (Read: The European Myth of White Slavery) it’s very annoying to deal with The number provided at the end is proved to be artificial.
@Metal0sopher
Жыл бұрын
I have only one complaint that really aggravates me across the board. Anytime slaves are mentioned in a video they post images of blacks in chains. This video does it and pretty much everyone else, perpetuating this belief that Africans have been perpetual slaves, since always. This is FALSE. For most of Africa's history Africans were NOT slaves, and wealthy powerful African individuals and kingdoms were seen no different than any other of any region. It is only since the British slave trade to the Americas that blacks only were taken as slaves. Why? Because slavery was illegal in Europe, after the fall of Rome, but starting in the 16th century, maybe influenced by these Barbary pirates, an exception was made for Africans ONLY, because they were considered "not quite human" and "savages". But historically slave had nothing do so with Africa or skin color. Every culture was enslaved at some point, and the Barbary pirates mostly enslaved white Europeans, light skinned North Africans, or whomever else they could capture. This myth that Africans have always been slaves needs to stop by always associating images of blacks in chains anytime the word laves pops up.
@Roberto-REME
Жыл бұрын
@@Metal0sopher Good points, Metalosopher, and I appreciate your frustration. Unlike you, though, I did not get the perception of "....perpetuating this belief that Africans have been perpetual slaves,..." White Christians were enslaved by Muslims in North Africa, as well as by the Romans. The Egyptians enslaved their captors, the Spanish enslaved Meso Americans and the list goes on. In fact, even today, many countries with large populations of enslaved people include China, Russia, Pakistan, etc. I would say the aforementioned is common knowledge, but it is not. Large pockets of society bare low interest or concern, or simply ignorance and, in many cases, blind stupidity plague our society.
@incogb6696
Жыл бұрын
@@Metal0sopher we North Africans were barely enslaved, but only to a small degree. Europeans were the vast majority of Roman slaves. Romans did not enslave Slavs more than they enslaved Germanics or Gauls or Hispanics. The closest Imazighen were mercenaries for them and the overwhelming majority of Imazighen lived far from the coasts where they settled, they lived in the mountains or the desert and barely interacted with Romans. The majority of Barbary pirates were Europeans (Jannisaries, Albanians, other Europeans)… it’s true.. Chattel Slavery is the first time ever that Radicalization as a basis for Slavery existed. No reason to deny this, build a bridge and get over it. Most Europeans sold themselves, and this is fact. Yes some were taken by Barbaries in retaliation (?) but it’s not even like us North Africans talk about our slavery.. let’s stop dismissing African (West,Central) and move on
@incogb6696
Жыл бұрын
@@Roberto-REME it’s obvious SSA’s and North Africans are different. North Africans were not taken as slaves to the New World. Slavery in the Americas is the first time in history where Race was the subtext of a group’s Enslavement. The Europeans did this again with the Native Americans, and it is happening, again, in Palestine, only Europeans suffer this delusion
Am I entitled to "reparations" from decendants of Africa for the enslavement of my forefathers?🤔
@FindMissingKids268
4 ай бұрын
Yes, go get your hut and donkey 😀
@milascave2
2 ай бұрын
Can you actually trace that and prove it? If so, contact the governments of Morocco and Algeria, where the descendants of the Berber people live. However, the ruling class has been mostly Arab for centuries, so don't get your hopes up.
@kingjam3s540
5 күн бұрын
Does the word colonisation sound familiar to you?
Very interesting history and definitely something people should know more of!
In 1416, slavery was banned in the Republic of Dubrovnik. The vote was 76 to 3 in favor of abolishing slavery in the city council. In the statement signed by all, it is written: we abolish slavery because slavery is disgusting and a shame to humanity.
@cockoffgewgle4993
Жыл бұрын
It was effectively banned domestically in Britain many centuries before it was banished globally as well.
@loreCarbonell
11 ай бұрын
*Ragusa. The main language of the City wasn't croatian or venetian or italian. It was dalmatian.
@lesliearblaster2711
6 ай бұрын
Isn't it sad. We "abolished slavery" but how many children are slaves in this country right now?
What an interesting and amazing video. Why isn't this taught more. I was never taught this in school. Thank you very much for the enlightenment.
@cbrogers4614
Жыл бұрын
… because it doesn’t fit an agenda?
@incogb6696
Жыл бұрын
I'm North African. most of us besides a few were not involved in this. the difference is it was Ottoman Empire/Europeans enslaving other europeans. Turks, Albanians, Romans, Greek, they left berber girls alone in the mountains. I was reading and it seemed like we weren’t into them. We did like Saudis though the Romans were extra brutal bc they used their slaves for both work and elsewhere. You have to think about the quality of standard each provides, and contextually understand most of these women sold themselves (Read: The European Myth of White Slavery) it’s very annoying to deal with The number provided at the end is proved to be artificial.
@closetglobe.IRGUN.NW0
Жыл бұрын
@@cbrogers4614 no. Because it's not a big deal
@chrisoakley5830
Жыл бұрын
@@cbrogers4614 You got it.
@johnnya6911
Жыл бұрын
Your ignorance is your responsibility
British Navy also faught the Barbary pirates...And later stopped the slave trade completely..
@fuzzley911
Жыл бұрын
The Americans stopped the Barbary slave trade not the British
I think Europeans should demand reparations.
@samdm2140
Жыл бұрын
What reparations? Europeans invade northafrica after that and they killed many people there.
@mohammed9w553
Жыл бұрын
What do arabs and berbers have to do with this ? This all happened under the occupation of the ottoman empire in north africa , the ottomans are the ones who did this , arabs hate the ottoman empire , did you forget they destroyed it ? 🤔
@ajayd.5722
Жыл бұрын
Europeans sold their own people to North Africa. I owe them nothing. We feel not guilt
@YoskerMarco-ue1qs
9 ай бұрын
Nope what your saying has zero sources. if we are talking about slavery we talk about slavery like the atlantic slavery (the enslaving of blacks) baarbry (the enslaving of europe,arab) mamluk slavery(the enslaving of turks,slavic,balkn) company slavery(the enslaving of india,indonesia) roman slavery (the enslaving of germanic,celt) what you are saying is about those females their ethnic origin is jewishberber. your sources dont make sense. before islam there was a ethiopian ruler he went towards arabia he enslaved the arabs a movie about that as they were shown being naked on walls. that rulers he used his typical black muscled power. never saw such a thing about berbers, their geneticall wilderness always overwelmed the opponent never saw berbers being enslaved. Black people saddly fell into slavery by opponents with gunpowder. this clearly proves wild is better than muscle
@AlexanderTheFarmer
2 күн бұрын
As a Romanian, I approve. I want reparations for having my ancestors living under ottoman rule for hundreds of years and being enslaved.
A lot of people know very little about the slave trade and who was involved, both slavers, and slaves!
@robertpatterson9943
Жыл бұрын
Especially African Americans
@certinstructorron4050
Жыл бұрын
@@robertpatterson9943 You are so right! Some of my ancestors were treated badly. I'm not a victim. Some were taken captive 2,700 years ago by the Assyrians! I have slaves in my ancestry. I'm not a VICTIM!
@mugikuyu9403
Жыл бұрын
@@robertpatterson9943 There we’re different types of slave trades. African Americans know about the Atlantic slave trade that took goods from America to Europe and slaves from Africa to the americas. Why should they know the entire history of all slave trading to know how their ancestors were affected by the Atlantic slave trade specifically? I wouldn’t expect some random Chinese guy in china to know much about my own ethnic groups history, why should I expect such a thing. You’re being mad that someone knows about the history that affects them specifically, that’s weird!
@jordanowens6253
Жыл бұрын
@@mugikuyu9403 I think the point being made is that Africans were not the only enslaved people in human history, despite what many believe.
@Sanakudou
Жыл бұрын
@@mugikuyu9403 because it can easily be distorted as if it was an exclusive instance of slavery that spontaneously was created by evil white people in Britain and America as a result of racial supremacist ideas and not the continuation of a practice that can be tracked through every human civilisation in recorded history, in which every ethnicity has been both the victim and perpetrators of it, making it messy and misleading to cut out a small piece of history to create a simplistic cartoon villain out of a single culture of race. The population on the coastlines of Europe were getting stripped bare with the populations of entire towns, one after the other, taken by Ottoman Empire slaver raids, people who managed to avoid capture would then spend everything they had to gain passage on a boat so they could go to the slave markets in person in hopes to buy back their families, sometimes they were successful in locating and buying them back, if they could afford to, sometimes they had to choose which loved ones to buy and which to leave behind but other times they were too late anyway and some if not all family members had already been sold to non-European owners and they would never see them again. Likewise for entire families caught by the slavers they’d all be sold off separately and never know what fate befell one another. Sometimes governments were more or less extorted with the “offer” to buy back an entire town of recently abducted people, especially for important fishing towns where they knew losing all those fishermen would impact food supply. Historical context is helpful, especially in destroying the notion of whites as only ever being slave owners and not victims of massive scale enslavement too. If you get too narrow in the history you’re looking at you can end up with ideas about history that are extremely skewed. This doesn’t absolve Europeans of Americans for participating in the slave trade, but it helps get rid of the idea they single handedly invented it and bear singular guilt for it or that they were never hurt by it themselves. But in reference specific to African American slaves, the most overlooked aspect of the transatlantic slave trade is the culpability of other nations and cultures who sustained the slave trade, the British and Americans weren’t running around hunting down slaves in Africa, they were buying them from non-European slavers, specifically Africans and Arabs, who had been the ones to capture and chain these individuals in the first place. Slavery is a guilt for humankind as a whole to take responsibility for creating and perpetuating it, for having ever done such a thing to fellow human beings. Regardless it took the collaboration of everyone around the world to truly bring it to and end. The biggest complication of our fixation with historic slavery blame games is that it’s taken the attention away from the plain as day reemergence of slavery happening RIGHT NOW, of modern day slave markets with human beings in bondage and price tags hanging around their necks, standing next to the cattle and pens of chickens also up for sale as if they’re no different. No international government bodies doing anything to intervene. The world previously united to forcefully dismantle the transatlantic slave trade, the first time in history such a thing has happened, we can’t let that go to waste and let slavery creep back into existence, we especially shouldn’t wait till it finally impacts us personally in first world countries to do something. If we got our heads out of the past we could continue to do the most important thing possible for the present day: stop slavery in its entirety and never give it the chance to come back.
I bet the mainstream education and media won't ever teach this in schools or universities.
@GUIGuyify
Жыл бұрын
Was thought in Irish schools when I was young… common knowledge for my generation, but don’t know if taught anymore
@trentbacker9562
Жыл бұрын
@@GUIGuyify I would be very surprised if it were taught today.
@wallyreyes2035
Жыл бұрын
They are mostly atheist Marxist democratic socialist college professors this day's. But they are to busy teaching brainwashing Obama's gender fluidity crap.
@AtomicVoid95
Жыл бұрын
Really depends on the country and entity deciding the syllabus
@slanwar
Жыл бұрын
@@GUIGuyify We learned in Portugal as well long time ago, not sure if they went woke and don't teach history anymore, anyway the south coast (Algarve) was constantly raided so they built forts to protect the villages.
The USA was founded in 1776 When it became free of English tyranny. The USA abolished slavery in 1865 with the 13th amendment. So slavery existed in the USA for 89 years. Not for “centuries“.
I like how most of the images are of Black slaves; but the thing that captures most of the viewer's attention and garners their praise for the video, are the scant references to 'White Gold'.
The Berbers of today still tell stories about the "good old days", when they traded "white gold", meaning white slaves from the North, the West, and Central Europe. The gold of the Arabs for white slaves is still in the memories of the Berber people.
@Holybatman3603
Жыл бұрын
Lmao, based elders.
@mohammed9w553
Жыл бұрын
What do arabs and berbers have to do with this ? This all happened under the occupation of the ottoman empire in north africa , the ottomans are the ones who did this , arabs hate the ottoman empire , did you forget they destroyed it ? 🤔
@vladtheimpaler5454
Жыл бұрын
Good to know how France took care of them
@alexla7182
Жыл бұрын
Berbers are white too!!
@cazique244
Жыл бұрын
@@Holybatman3603 😮😂
Even as north as Iceland the slaveshis were landing. As per Wikipedia: In 1627, three Arab pirate ships from the Ottoman-controlled Barbary Coast raided several towns on the south coast of Iceland and outlying islands.[3] They attacked Grindavík and Heimaey. In Grindavík, townspeople could flee into the lava field of Reykjanes and hide indefinitely. Heimaey was so isolated that it was vulnerable and people suffered. Many heroic stories were told of the people who survived the invasion, most notably Guðríður Símonardóttir. Better known as Tyrkja-Gudda (Turkish-Gudda), she was taken by the pirates from her home at Stakkagerði on Heimaey to the slave market in Algeria. From there she bought her way back to Iceland through Tunisia, Italy and Denmark-Iceland was then under Danish rule. Upon returning to Iceland, she married the poet Hallgrímur Pétursson. The Hallgrímskirkja Lutheran church in Reykjavík is named in his honour.
@brianticas7671
8 ай бұрын
Did not know Iceland was ruled by Denmark. I thought the top dog of Scandinavian countries was Sweden or Norway.
@Males.are.lowest.
3 ай бұрын
@@brianticas7671norway?Are you dumb? Norwegians were ruled by danes/swedes for years Weakest scandinavian country
Great video!
Raided 466 in seven years! From 1609 to 1616! That is approximately one to two per week! An incredible number considering Barbary's ship technology. A dreadfully dangerous force! No wonder life expectancy was 30 years! Imagine! As soon as you graduate...say with a masters, you have only a couple years left to live! Taking that into account the age to give birth would have to have been much lower than it is today.
@Justin.Martyr
Жыл бұрын
*Mother Mary, was Raped at 12-years OLd!!!*
i need more of this kind of content on youtube. i need people who educate us about this type of history.
@babagalacticus
Жыл бұрын
try a good BOOK STORE or LIBRARY; while these youtube videos can be informative, if you are an autodidact, then avail yourself of the wealth of material penned by historians & research authors. the PRINTED word is still one of the glorious attributes of the west.
@epeeypen
Жыл бұрын
@@babagalacticus right but i mean i need more of this content and information on KZread that shows history outside of a Eurocentric view
@straighttalking2090
Жыл бұрын
@@epeeypen Just wondering if you're American Jordan. The reason I ask is 'Eurocentric' has a different sense in America to the one in Europe.
@epeeypen
Жыл бұрын
@@straighttalking2090 got me
@straighttalking2090
Жыл бұрын
@@epeeypen Bingo! 'bout time I got someone. Greetings from the UK. Thanks for helping save us in WW2, still grateful.
You've referenced Ben Hur a few times and illustrated your video with clips from both the silent and 1959 film versions. Both the novel and films were riddled with historical inaccuracies not the least of which was the use of galley slaves in the Roman navy. Rowers, like sailors and marines, were enlisted as auxiliary troops. They were paid (we have surviving papyrus pay records) and pensioned off at the end of their enlistment (we have diplomas which included a grant of Roman citizenship). In his Commentary on the Gallic Wars, Julius Caesar complimented the rowers of the galleys that transported his army to Britain. There are accounts of Marcus Agrippa constructing benches for training rowers before the battle of Salamis which implies that rowing ancient galleys required more skill than the galleys of the late middle ages and Renaissance. During times of crisis, slaves were sometimes recruited with the pay and the promise of freedom and citizenship at the end of their service but that was also true of slaves and gladiators recruited into the Roman army. Long story short: no galley slaves in the Roman Navy.
@MisterG1001
Жыл бұрын
Correction: Actium not Salamis.
@elliotgregory3356
Жыл бұрын
Did not know that! Thank you
@titolovely8237
Жыл бұрын
yea there's a tendency when discussing slavery to paint the most miserable and decrepit picture of the situation, but the reality is a tired, malnourished, sick rower doesnt really work very well as a longterm strategy within the context of military operations. it's sorta like animal keeping today. if you want a horse to draw your carriage, you dont beat it half to death, stop giving it water, and let it lie in it's own sick. while these things did happen, they were extremely rare, and it was by no means the norm. ppl forget just how valuable slaves were. the vast majority of slaveholders had a vested monetary interest in keeping them healthy and alive for as long as possible. when a slave died, you lost not only a monetary asset but also a productive asset as well. in fact speaking specifically about roman slavery, we have many examples of free people selling themselves into slavery of their own volition. in many cases slavery was preferable to being a peasant.
@elliotgregory3356
Жыл бұрын
@@titolovely8237 Again, I didn't know this. Thank you both for the history lesson
@merropcs110
Жыл бұрын
Well ,great input. So tiring to hear about misery of slavery and bad treatment ,meanwhile one slave price was as high as a price of automobile in early XX century Why master would damage his own expensive tool ? It's not practical at all.
_an entire village was taken by pirates and remained empty for years_ But remember: the Irish were never slaves. Never let history tell you otherwise.
Thanks for this informative lecture!
Did you just say that the Barbary Corsairs didn’t raid England? Did I hear that correctly? If so, not only did they raid England, they raided the west and southwestern coast multiple times. It’s is said that they raided the west coast of England at will. August 1625 corsairs raided Mount’s Bay, Cornwall, capturing 60 men, women and children. In 1626 St Keverne was repeatedly attacked, and boats out of Looe, Penzance, Mousehole and other Cornish ports were boarded, their crews taken captive and the empty ships left to drift. It was feared that there were around 60 Barbary men-of-war prowling the Devon and Cornish coasts and attacks were now occurring almost daily. Sir John Eliot, Vice Admiral of Devon, declared that the seas around England “seem’d theirs.” The situation was so bad that in December 1640 a Committee for Algiers was set up by Parliament to oversee the ransoming of captives. At that time it was reported that there were some 3,000 to 5,000 English people in captivity in Algiers. Charities were also set up to help ransom the captives and local fishing communities clubbed together to raise money to liberate their own.
The Knights of Malta, Spanish, Portuguese, Venetian, and Papal navies were in the forefront in the fighting against the Ottomans and the Barbary pirates of North Africa. The Americans were late comers.
@vvt7825
Жыл бұрын
Late comers according to who, you? Let's look a little shall we. It's a matter of undisputed fact that the U.S. became a country for all intents and purposes in 1783. It also undisputed that prior to that those states were British Crown colonies. And any trade naval service etc was done under British authority. I'm going out on a limb and guess that a country can't conduct naval operations before it exists, but I could be wrong.
@johndorilag4129
Жыл бұрын
@@vvt7825 Yes, they were late comers to the fight since the Mediterranean powers such as Spain and Portugal have have been fighting the Ottomans and pirates since the 16th century or even earlier. The US only started fighting them in the 19th century. There was no US in the 16th or 17th century which is understandable but the Americans were indeed late comers to the fight.
@vvt7825
Жыл бұрын
@@johndorilag4129 What is your point? Colonialists were called Americans by 1650, a great many served in the British Royal Navy..... in the Mediterranean. Quite a number of the new U.S. Navy men had previously served in the Royal Navy. Americans were fighting Islamic pirates in the 17th century, but the U.S. Navy wasn't. To be a late comer you must have been around at that time, but not participating. A new comer wasn't there or in existence early on, but came when available. But why worry about who showed up to help. I'm not aware any one said the new U.S. Navy did it on their own. I guess the Swedish Navy doesn't count either.
@johndorilag4129
Жыл бұрын
@@vvt7825 Can you show proof that the US Navy was fighting Muslim pirates in the 17th century in North Africa?
@vvt7825
Жыл бұрын
@@johndorilag4129 Well now, which is it, Americans like you said in your comment, or the U.S. Navy like your saying now? Nothing like moving the goalposts right?
When we hear the word pirates we think of European Corsairs usually English or Dutch, but piracy was not limited to only those nations, there had been pirates from many countries, realms and races.
Fun fact: the peace treaty signed with the Moroccan Sultan was the first and lngest lasting peace treaty in US history
If only children could/would learn history in schools.
@teslacoils5881
Жыл бұрын
what do you think they are teaching instead lol
@hayley4032
Жыл бұрын
It depends on the curriculum. In Hong Kong, we are not taught anything outside what we would be tested on, and from P3 to Yr9 in IGCSEs, all we learnt about were the Egyptians, the battle of Stamford bridge, the Aztecs, and some basic information on World War I, the bombings of Hiroshima/Dresden, and an overview on America's racial segregation Teachers won't teach you about Richard Ramirez, Lobotomies or anything about ancient cultures like the Victorians unless you ask them, I was lucky to be able to have a teacher that would assist on extra projects I was working on, as other teachers from the same school would just say "This isn't what we're teaching about right now, maybe you can look into that in a few years" and honestly if all teachers were like that, then we would see a lot more people reaching their potential. I don't know what they teach in IB since I'm going to study in Germany, but the school systems in Hong Kong can definitely be improved, sometimes it's not the student's fault. I know some people who love History but aren't good with languages, and some who would enjoy History only if they found what they were interested in. History is really diverse, but it's been boiled down to what I mentioned before 😂
@GregNickoloff
Жыл бұрын
@@teslacoils5881 Just the absolute minimum...
@Buster_Piles
Жыл бұрын
Too busy teaching them about gender issues and preferred pronouns, no time for history.
@PerceptionVsReality333
Жыл бұрын
They're taught only the bad things Europeans have done to other peoples.
The technology to sail against the wind certainly existed, going back to at least the 5th century. By the 15th century, you had the Arab dhow’s in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, similar ships in the Eastern Mediterranean, and the Portuguese caravel, all of which used lateen sails or similar, and could sail upwind. The galleys were warships, and since they could keep moving in calm air, could hunt down and ram & board sailing ships. The ships that the pirates preyed upon would have been vulnerable during periods of calm or light breezes, even though they could sail upwind.
@seculardharma
Жыл бұрын
dhows weren't arab, they were Indian. they were first invented in Kerela. Even today the dhows you see in arab world are built by craftsmen in Kerala (They have been doing that for a melenia).
@GAMER123GAMING
Жыл бұрын
@@seculardharma B-but we arabs wuz like 3 trillion years ahead of everyone!!!
@ryanmarlin2974
Жыл бұрын
@anmol monga dhows weren't Indian. Their origin is lost to history but they were used by many people, although mainly arabs. Omanis and Yemenis would come to kerala to get their dhows due to good timber in the Kerala forests, the availability of good coir rope, and the skilled shipwrights. But dhows existed before then already and were previously made with coconut rope.
@mohammed9w553
Жыл бұрын
What do arabs and berbers have to do with this ? This all happened under the occupation of the ottoman empire in north africa , the ottomans are the ones who did this , arabs hate the ottoman empire , did you forget they destroyed it ? 🤔
For the sake of fairness and historical accuracy at this point they should teach all this in schools.
The teary-eyed maghrebi will always tell you that they were colonized, but they will never tell you WHY they were colonized. 🙃
I noticed you made no mention about those same pirates leaving the Mediterranean and struck out onto the Atlantic to raid Iceland for goods and slaves.
@jgdooley2003
Жыл бұрын
He did mention Baltimore on the Southwest coast of Ireland which was attacked in 1632. It should be noted that this was in a time when The Royal Navy was undergoing a crisis in funding and running and was weak.
@suzannenoel3078
Жыл бұрын
@@jgdooley2003 Yes, he did mention Ireland but the Barbary pirates continued beyond that point and attacked Iceland. Which I stated earlier.
@JonathanGillies
Жыл бұрын
'Voices of the Past' has a cool video about an Icelander who was captured in 1627. :)
@Faridtaher00
Жыл бұрын
@@jgdooley2003 Baltimore was liberated from English occupation and the pirates were warmly welcomed by the people of Baltimore
They never mentioned this in grade,high,school or college. Now I understand why slavery that's horrendous and hideous. Still going on today. God help us all. Philadelphia USA
@LordInquisitor701
Жыл бұрын
Too many white people been enslaved and Europeans was not the ones doing the enslaving
@scottdoesntmatter4409
Жыл бұрын
Bear in mind that it was Islam who sold slaves into the Atlantic slave trade, and Islam continues to practice slavery today, since it's a part of the religion. This is not an exaggeration, its in their Hadiths and Quran. The goal is to enslave non Muslims, as in anyone who won't convert.
@TheSharpmarksman
Жыл бұрын
They don't want white people to know their ancestors were also enslaved by brown semites
@johnsantini3382
Жыл бұрын
White never be slave
While we're at it, it's rarely mentioned that it was predominantly Jews who ran the Spanish and Portuguese slave trades and even the Dutch colonies are still called jodensavannah which means Jewish savannah. They also ran most of not all the ones going to U.S.A They brought them off warring African tribes. Left the Europeans out to take all the blame.
Over 1.3 million Europeans from Western, Southern, Southwestern, and Northwestern Europe were enslaved by the Barbary Pirates.
Islamic slave ships did sale and raided the coast of England. Until Britain began to dominate the sea.and forced the slave ships to stop. Hence the song Rule Britannia
@alirezabhmanabadi4235
Жыл бұрын
*Islamic* , thats not very islamic thing to do, why are you pointing out as islamic?
@linjicakonikon7666
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@@alirezabhmanabadi4235 It's called THE TRUTH.
@SergyMilitaryRankings
Жыл бұрын
@@linjicakonikon7666 just like the Christian slavers
@esti-od1mz
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@@alirezabhmanabadi4235 weren't they muslims?
@alirezabhmanabadi4235
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@@esti-od1mz Muslim yes, Islamic no, atleast not in what they did.
Very informative. I had just a vague knowledge of this era, but you filled in some gaps.
Great video. Thank you
Why does everyone in this subject blatantly ignore the fact that slavery inflicted by the Muslims had gone on longer than slavery to the north American continent? South American continent was all Portugal and Spain but Islam enslaved and murdered African pagans by the millions for centuries in either direction. They didn't officially stop until the UN forced them to stop in the 1960s/1970s and they still haven't stopped. Saudi barbaria still maintains a large count of African skavssm
President Thomas Jefferson is famously quoted as saying, "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute." Indicating the primary US reason for fighting and succeeding in the First and Second Barbary Wars.
Maybe the Countries of Europe should ask for "reparations" 🤔🤔
@13thdivision70
3 ай бұрын
Cope
@AlexanderTheFarmer
2 күн бұрын
I agree.
It seems odd that one would never mention Thomas Jefferson in such a history. It was President Jefferson who sent the Navy and Marines (without informing congress until too late for them to act) to end the Barbary looting and enslaving. Ransoming Americans from the corsairs had become so common and costly that it was actually part of the nation’s budget under Adams.
Very informative. Should open the worlds eyes as to who , ehere , and when slavery was not just in the United States.