The History of Slavery, Part 3: Christian Slaves and Muslim MastersBarbary Pirates in the Mediterranean, 1500-1800

Published: July 26, 2018, 7:44 a.m.

As the trans-Atlantic slave trade from sub-Saharan Africa to the Americas began to grow in the 1500s, there was another slave trade that operated on an even larger scale in the same time period. It was the capture of Europeans by north-African...