Check out Nominal’s Boxing Day Sale and use the code BUY 1 GET 1 FREE: https://nominalx.com/hikmahistory The Barbary Slave Trade thrived off piracy in the Mediterranean. Pirates operated off the coast of North Africa preyed on European coastal settlements and ships; enslaving Europeans who were subsequently brought back to port cities in Morocco and Algeria among other places. Historians have speculated that from the 16th to the early 19th century, as much as 1 million Christian Europeans were enslaved by the Barbary pirates. FREE NEWSLETTER: https://mailchi.mp/a69f93be6c66/hikma-history-newsletter - Become a Patron for as little as a dollar a month to vote on upcoming and keep the movement going! https://www.patreon.com/user?u=12397811 Massive thank you to our Patreons: Aman Valter William Tahsin Zaki Sam Elman Walid Fatima Tristan Edgar Claudius Bilal Rob Kjetil Amin Tasso Deniz Yehoshua Artin Adam Omar Farid Ibrahim Ari Joshua Haseeb Mahmoud Joel CoreBard - Join our social media community: Twitter: https://twitter.com/HikmaHistory Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hikmahistory/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HikmaHistory/ Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/hikma... #barbary #pirates #slavery Images Used: Music Used: Doug Maxwell - Arabian Nightfall (Sting): null. If any of the images or songs are yours, please let me know I will amend them. Please don't report me straight away!