Posted on 09/19/2025 4:49:04 AM PDT by MtnClimber
From Wikimedia Commons: Bombardment of Tripoli, August 3, 1804 (Michele Felice Cornè, 1806).
In the decades following the American Revolution, the U.S. found itself navigating a perilous global seascape. Deprived of British naval protection, its merchant ships became vulnerable to predation from the notorious “Barbary corsairs” — state-sponsored pirates operating from the North African coast. These sailors, under the command of Muslim tyrants in Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, and Morocco, preyed on Christian shipping in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, capturing ships and enslaving their crews.
For the U.S., a nation newly born and diplomatically inexperienced, the threat posed by the Barbary States demanded an unprecedented response. What followed was a clash of ideologies, religions, and maritime powers that would define early American foreign policy, naval expansion, and its role on the international stage.
The Barbary corsairs behaved partly like “rogue pirates” of the Seven Seas. In reality, however, they were state-sanctioned agents of piracy and enslavement. Overseen by the respective governments of the Barbary States, the sailors justified their actions in religious and economic terms. Under common interpretations of Islamic law, it was both permissible and admirable to wage “jihad” against Christian states, with slavery and plunder being considered perfectly acceptable. Thus blessed as holy warriors, Muslim corsairs reveled in the large-scale capture of Christian sailors and civilians for centuries. In response, European powers — anticipating the modern-day appeasement of actively hostile Muslim-majority states — paid tribute to prevent attacks on their shipping.
Between the 16th and 19th centuries, an estimated one to 1.25 million Europeans were captured and sold into slavery in North Africa. These captives were forced into hard labor or held for ransom in appalling conditions. The reach of Barbary piracy was shockingly extensive. In 1627, corsairs raided the coasts of Iceland
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And now so many countries are just letting them in.
Excellent article. It reminds us slavery affects all people regardless of ethnic group, result of a world without God.
“Between the 16th and 19th centuries, an estimated one to 1.25 million Europeans were captured and sold into slavery in North Africa.”
People now have NO IDEA how much it sucked to live back then. You’re in a nice Italian town, plenty of food, even good food (it’s Italy after all), everyone knows everyone, all go to church, all look out for each other. Then one quiet night, BOOM!!!, whoever isn’t killed is dragged off to be raised as a Muslim, made a slave, or forced into a Harem in Algiers.
...and parents now file lawsuits when their kids are teased at school.
250% as many as blacks enslaved in the U.S.
Excellent article. It reminds us slavery affects all people regardless of ethnic group, result of a world without God.
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It’s a wonderful explanation, juxtaposing the U.S. approach to slavery against the Muslim world that remains stuck in a barbaric past. A past propelled by a Satanic cultist overlord deceiver known as Allah. Muhammad’s memorialization of Allah’s deceptive message in the Quran promises that Muslims will be inspired forevermore to wage Jihad with the objective of waging enslavement and death upon all non-believers. Thomas Jefferson studied Islam and he understood that appeasement would never be the answer when dealing with this death cult. Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation represented a divinely inspired pivot, a striking statement evidencing how a society, borne on Christian principles, inherently understood that freedom had to exist for all mankind because it is a God given right bestowed by the Almighty, while Islamists, to this day, remain calcified and mired in their barbaric past of slavery and death.
And passengers!
This is one of the great dangers of the past, when refugees from persecution in Europe, e.g. Huguenots, crossed the Atlantic to America.
Donald Trump is the 21st century incarnation of Thomas Jefferson and Stephen Decatur, refusing to pay tribute to the drug cartels, which kill, destroy, and enslave 21st century Americans, smashing their boats, incarcerating their agents, and waging war against them, as righteously and conclusively as Jefferson and Decatur demolished the Barbary pirates!
Godspeed, President Trump! Profound thanks from a grateful nation!
Donald Trump is the 21st century incarnation of Thomas Jefferson and Stephen Decatur, refusing to pay tribute to the drug cartels, which kill, destroy, and enslave 21st century Americans, smashing their boats, incarcerating their agents, and waging war against them, as righteously and conclusively as Jefferson and Decatur demolished the Barbary pirates!
Godspeed, President Trump! Profound thanks from a grateful nation!
Nice historical perspective. We also need to remember slavery is still going on today with human trafficking, which exploded under 0bama and Biden.
Nice historical perspective. We also need to remember slavery is still going on today with human trafficking, which exploded under 0bama and Biden.
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Yes, let’s never forget the pervasive, perverted, and evil sex and child abuse taking place today. But this criminal abuse and exploitation seems to exist on a slightly different plane than mass accepted societal imposed slavery. However, both derive from the worst of human traits - lust for control over humans and monetary greed.
The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil.
Why is the love of money the root of all kinds of evil?
https://www.gotquestions.org/love-money-root-evil.html
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