Victoria in white slave trade

[Chloe-Fusco]

Was the white slave trade storyline necessary in season 7?

 

[Jock Ewing Fan]

Was the white slave trade storyline necessary in season 7?

In researching this story line, I came across this info.

Forgotten in the current narrative is the story of the Barbary slave trade, where up to 1.25 million Europeans were enslaved by Barbary pirates – in North Africa.
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The Forgotten True Story of The White Slaves of Barbary​

By Bushrod Washington
Published September 19, 2017 at 5:25am
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In this media climate – and if you’re a student of pop culture, you’d think that slavery was invented by white people and only practiced by white people.
While slavery is a shameful legacy of many nations – America included- it was neither invented nor promulgated by American colonists or European explorers.
Slavery was around in Biblical times and continues to this day in much of the world, especially the Islamic world.
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Forgotten in the current narrative is the story of the Barbary slave trade, where up to 1.25 million Europeans were enslaved by Barbary pirates – in North Africa.

CREDIT: http://www.westernspring.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Slavery-White.jpg


The “Barbary Coast” is the European term for the North African areas now called Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya.



These raids continued until the latter part of the 17th Century, when Europeans began to become more powerful on the seas. But it took until the first years of the 19th Century – and with the help of the US – to fight back against the Barbary Pirates enough to get them to stop.

The Forgotten True Story of The White Slaves of Barbary

Something they don't teach in schools.

thefederalistpapers.org

I didn't know this

Interesting how the media can be so selective in citing history


In the 17th Century, Barbary pirates raided coastal cities in Italy, France, Spain, Portugal and even England and Ireland. In one Irish town, Baltimore, practically every inhabitant was captured and used as slaves back in Africa or on sailing ships, never to set foot in Ireland again.

CREDIT: http://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/field/image/white-slaves.jpg
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The “Barbary Coast” is the European term for the North African areas now called Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya.
In the 17th Century, Barbary pirates raided coastal cities in Italy, France, Spain, Portugal and even England and Ireland. In one Irish town, Baltimore, practically every inhabitant was captured and used as slaves back in Africa or on sailing ships, never to set foot in Ireland again.

The Forgotten True Story of The White Slaves of Barbary

Something they don't teach in schools.

thefederalistpapers.org