It took me a while to realize it was Baltimore, Ireland, not Maryland. LOL
I’m sure that probably happened to my ancestors and waiting for reparations to start flowing any day now
I looked it up on Google Gemini and all those European slaves were black.
And that’s why Stephen Decatur was a hero and we should have a holiday to remember him. “To the shores of Tripoli,” indeed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_pirates
Number of people enslaved
The number of slaves captured by Barbary pirates are difficult to quantify. According to Robert Davis, between 1 million and 1.25 million Europeans were captured by Barbary pirates and sold as slaves in North Africa and Ottoman Empire between the 16th and 19th centuries.[33][34]
The Ottoman Turk Emperor Selim II (who is most known for being ruler during loss of Battle of Lepanto) was born of a blond-concubine taken from Crimea (a ‘slav’) who was the harem favorite of “Sulemein the Magnificent.”
There’s a very popular Turkish TV series called “The Magnificent Century” staring German-Turkish Actress Meryem Urzurli, who played this woman, named Hurrem Sultan
So in our very typically narrow and politicized way, Americans know nothing of “white slavery” while the rest of the world, particularly the Mid-east, knows all about it, and thinks it was great.
NAZI enslaved millions. Soviets enslaved millions. Viking enslaved whites.
Heck, I am a slave 40% of the year for slobs that live off my tax dollars.
The trade in slaves from Africa south of the Sahara was started by the Arabs, long before Europeans got into to.
“From the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli....” Also, 20% of our GDP early on to ‘bribe’ them NOT to kidnap Americans. (Leave US alone.)
The largest slave trade was on the East Mediterranean and Black sea. Turks demanded slave tax on Christian subjects - every fifth boy had to be given to sultan as slave.
Crimean Tatars ran a huge slave operation decimating Ukraine, Russia, Romania and Poland. Millions were taken to slavery.
Crimean port of Feodosia was the largest slave market anywhere.
Turkish sultans were basically prohibited to marry (to be independent) and their harem was exclusively “staffed” by Christian slave women, as Muhammad prohibits enslaving Muslims. Sick!
The largest slave trade was on the East Mediterranean and Black sea. Turks demanded slave tax on Christian subjects - every fifth boy had to be given to sultan as slave.
Crimean Tatars ran a huge slave operation decimating Ukraine, Russia, Romania and Poland. Millions were taken to slavery.
Crimean port of Feodosia was the largest slave market anywhere.
Turkish sultans were basically prohibited to marry (to be independent) and their harem was exclusively “staffed” by Christian slave women, as Muhammad prohibits enslaving Muslims. Sick!
The largest slave trade was on the East Mediterranean and Black sea. Turks demanded slave tax on Christian subjects - every fifth boy had to be given to sultan as slave.
Crimean Tatars ran a huge slave operation decimating Ukraine, Russia, Romania and Poland. Millions were taken to slavery.
Crimean port of Feodosia was the largest slave market anywhere.
Turkish sultans were basically prohibited to marry (to be independent) and their harem was exclusively “staffed” by Christian slave women, as Muhammad prohibits enslaving Muslims. Sick!
The last slave market in Europe was in the city of Skopje, now in the country of Macedonia
The slave market was shut down in 1912 when the Serbian army captured the city as part of the Balkan Wars of the early 20th
century
bump for later
I want my reparations dammit.
The explorer of the Upper Nile River who discovered Lake Albert was Sir Samuel White Baker. His wife Florence was of Hungarian ancestry. He bought her in a slave market in Ottoman occupied eastern Europe. She was his Arabic translator during his explorations. Queen Victoria refused to invite her to court.