[ml/nj]

Now reading Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, The Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500-1800 at the suggestion of FReeper author Matt Bracken. It isn't pretty.

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[Westbrook]

My mother grew up in Sicily.

She told me that, when Muslim traders came to her town from the other side of the Mediterranean, the women and children stayed in the houses and only the men would deal with them.

Sicily was enslaved under Muslim rule for at least 400 years.

If it weren’t for the Crusades, they’d still be.