Posted on 08/12/2025 11:33:02 AM PDT by xxqqzz
When Englishman Thomas Pellow was 27, he led a slave-hunting expedition to the West African coast. His orders were to plunder the villages, kill the adults and capture the children.
But Pellow was not a mercenary employed in the transatlantic slave trade, which sent millions of its victims across the ocean. He was a slave himself – taken prisoner as a child by the Moroccan Sultan Moulay Ismail. And 300 years ago, he was far from alone.
The sultan owned an estimated 25,000 European slaves, many seized in raiding expeditions on the south coast of England as well as countries as far afield as Iceland.
Though it is almost forgotten today – suppressed, perhaps, by some squeamish historians – the Muslim trade in both black African and white European slaves was deeply feared for three centuries.
Yet, at the time, dozens of memoirs, many of them bestsellers, were published by former slaves who had escaped from captivity, with horrendous stories of torture, rape and cold-blooded murder.
Now, a book by historian Justin Marozzi unflinchingly reveals the extent of slavery in Arab countries, which was conducted with unequalled brutality.
More shocking still, he shows that it continued in much of the Islamic world well into the 20th century – and, for hundreds of thousands of West Africans born into life as slaves, carries on to this day.
For Marozzi to investigate these stories, let alone publish, is courageous. His book invites an inevitable backlash from Left-wing academics and broadcasters who focus solely on the slave trade triangle between Europe, West Africa and the Americas that operated from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
There is a poem, "The Sack of Baltimore" about a slave raid in County Cork. Muslim raiders took about 200, most of the village. Most were Puritan English settlers and some Irish may have set that up.
From the halls of Montezuma, to the shores of Tripoli.... Google it.
Muslims used to invade, capture, rape, convert, and enslave European Christians. Now European Christians invite Muslims in to capture, rape, convert, and enslave European Christians.
Some consider the indentured servants in the Americas to have been slaves:
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/90034279
Islam should be banned. 100%. Full stop. It is not a religion deserving protection under the first amendment. Keep it over there.
9YearLurker wrote: “Some consider the indentured servants in the Americas to have been slaves:”
Perhaps but there were significant differences.
Indentured servants would become free. Slavery was for life. Indentured servants volunteered for the indenture. Slaves were not volunteers.
Indentured servants were protected from being killed. Slaves were not.
“The Sack of Baltimore” Ireland is the one I always bring up to war about moslems.
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Correct.
WIKI
Die Entführung aus dem Serail ... (K. 384; The Abduction from the Seraglio; also known as Il Seraglio) is a singspiel in three acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
The opera loosely refers to the practice of the North African Barbary corsairs, who operated primarily in the western Mediterranean, of hijacking ships belonging to Christian states. Under the pretext of jihad, the ship and cargo were sold or returned only after a ransom was paid. The actual goal, however, was the kidnapping of crew and passengers, to extort ransom money or to sell them into slavery. It was also common to force affected seafaring nations of non-Muslim faith to pay protection money or tribute. The corsairs acted on behalf of or with the acquiescence of the local Muslim rulers in Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli. This type of state-backed piracy finally ended after the French conquest of Algiers (1830).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Entf%C3%BChrung_aus_dem_Serail
I wanz my resperatons check!
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“The Chain of Death Raid is the fifth episode of the first season of The Rat Patrol. It first aired on 10 October 1966.
“Synopsis
The aftermath of a raid on a German column headed for a vital oasis results in both Sergeant Sam Troy and Hauptmann Hans Dietrich being captured by Arab slave-traders.”
https://ratpatrol.fandom.com/wiki/The_Chain_of_Death_Raid
Thousands of the men on the Turkish ships in the battle of Lepanto in 1571 were Christians who had been taken prisoner and made galley slaves. Ironically one of the Turkish commanders in that battle was an Italian who had previously been a galley slave before converting to Islam.
Rat Patrol TV show, great series. I bought the DVD of all episodes, and eventually passed it on to relatives who were fans of all things WW II.
The Crimean slave trade captured as many Eastern Europeans to be sold in the Middle East. It ended after Russia annexed Crimea from the Ottomans. Eventually, the Soviets deported every Tatar living in Crimea. Slavs hate Tatars.
Available for preorder on Amazon:
Should be rather enlightening. I hope the author does a good job.
Publication date will be Oct 7, 2025. Hmm, wonder why they chose that date? /sarcasm
And the blacks in the days of slavery sold by fellow blacks and muslims.
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