[Locomotive Breath]

Not only that, the Arab Muslim North Africans were in the habit of capturing Christian Europeans and using them as slaves or holding them for ransom. For centuries. No one talks about that either. The phrase “worked like a galley slave” is not a random choice of words. There’s also a reason “to the shores of Tripoli” appears in a certain song.

[Verginius Rufus]

It was also the Turks who went around kidnapping people into slavery. Under the Ottoman Empire, periodically agents of the government would go around to Christian villages and take some of the boys away to become slaves of the sultan (the so-called blood tribute or devshirme).