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To: eleni121

The fishermen and coastal dwellers of 17th-century Britain lived in terror of being kidnapped by pirates and sold into slavery in North Africa. Hundreds of thousands across Europe met wretched deaths on the Barbary Coast in this way. Professor Robert Davis investigates.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/empire_seapower/white_slaves_01.shtml


48 posted on 07/14/2010 7:11:28 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: Fred Nerks

I don’t know if you have seen this slavery vid....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zM_MzkLKPY
but it points at Islam, the backbone of Farrakhan’s position and makes some great comparisons of slaving.

If he wants reparations perhaps he should go back to the Africans and muslims who sold them into slavery....


59 posted on 07/14/2010 8:15:21 PM PDT by himno hero
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To: Fred Nerks

Thanks for the links.


63 posted on 07/15/2010 5:27:37 AM PDT by algernonpj (He who pays the piper . . .)
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