Europe's Forgotten Terror - The Pirates Who Enslaved a Million People [30:39]

YouTube ^ | June 19, 2026 | thehistorysquad

[SunkenCiv]

Who were the Barbary Pirates? 

For over 300 years, the Barbary Pirates terrorized coastal Europe -- striking as far north as Iceland and as close to home as Ireland, England, Spain, and Italy. Men, women, and children vanished from beaches in the dead of night. Some estimates suggest more than a million Europeans were captured and sold into slavery. Yet today, few people are aware of this forgotten slave trade. 

In this documentary, join Kevin Hicks as he uncovers who the Barbary Pirates really were, how they built a slave-trading empire that the most powerful nations of the time struggled to stop. 

Europe's Forgotten Terror - The Pirates Who Enslaved a Million People | 30:39 
thehistorysquad | 73,098 views | June 19, 2026

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: barbarypirates; godsgravesglyphs; jihadisttrollsonfr; koranimals; middleages; mullahloversonfr

[SunkenCiv]

YouTube transcript reformatted at textformatter.ai *may* follow.

[SunkenCiv]

[Westbrook]

My mother said that when she was growing up in Sicily, merchants from North Africa would put into port to sell their wares.

All the children and women had to stay indoors under guard until the “merchants” left.

Too many people went missing during their visits.

This was in the 20th century!

[AZJeep]

There were also Turks and Crimean Tatars, who enslaved millions of South and East Europeans, even a lot more than the Barbary pirates.

[ScottHammett]

Ottoman corsairs or naval mujahideen. Mostly peaceful.

[Albion Wilde]

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[Uncle Miltie]

ChatGPT, which is wackado leftist, documents:

Direct comparison
Using commonly cited estimates:
Barbary corsairs: ~1.0–1.25 million Europeans
Crimean Tatar raids: ~1–2 million Eastern Europeans
Direct imports into the future United States: ~388,000 Africans

So, muslims enslaved roughly 5.6 times (460%) more slaves than America did.

[Taxman]

The Islamic pirates are still at work!

[rktman]

Wait, what. White peoples was slaves? What? /s

[Red Badger]

Anybody who has read “Robin Crusoe” will know about them.............

[jroehl]

That’s nothing. We have 5 to 10 million Indian citizens in the USA taking all our high paying jobs. The only people that know the real numbers are the big tech immigration lawyers. It is possible that nobody knows the “real numbers”.

[Sirius Lee]

[Secret Agent Man]

This hasn’t even touched on irish slavery

[protest1]

There are a series of excellent videos by Drachinifel on youtube highlighting the British war against Slavery.

The Bombardment of Algiers 1816 - See that slave fleet? I don't want to!

Britain's Anti-Slavery Campaign and the West Africa Squadron (1780-1820)

Britain's Anti-Slavery Efforts, The West Africa Squadron (1820-1826)

Britain's Anti-Slavery Efforts, The West Africa Squadron (1827-1830)

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

It will begin again when muslims take europe.

[AZJeep]

Very much. Genetic studies show that Turks are really mostly Greeks, forcefully converted or enslaved.
The ruling Osman dynasty was all descendent from chieftain Osman, but then basically European (Greek, Ruthenian and French) or latter Circassian, because no Turkish woman was admitted to harem, only slaves kidnapped from abroad.

[AZJeep]

Since may of these people are descendants of European slaves, they are kind of coming back.

[SunkenCiv]

I had the ai transcript processor remove “Islam” from “converted to Islam”.

[AZJeep]

On the web, I ran across some Iraqi guy with Czech last name.
There are apparently few hundreds of his namesake relatives living in Iraq.
Apparently hid Greatgreat...grandfather was captured by the Turks and to get himself out of the slavery converted to muslim faith.
But then, he could not return back home, because muslims were not allowed in Austrian empire at that time.
So he stayed in Iraq and produced many descendants!
They are still living there and well aware of their origin!

[No name given]

It’s only a matter of time.