Between 1530 and 1780 there were between 1 million and quite possibly as many as
1.25 million white, European Christians enslaved by the Muslims of the between 1530 and 1780 there were almost certainly 1 million and quite possibly as many as
1.25 million white, European Christians enslaved by the Muslims of the Barbary Coast in North Africa by the Barbary Pirates.
They operated mostly in the Mediterranean, but went as far north as England and as far west as my Island of Madeira.. They attacked us on dozens of occasions, looted our coastal villages, captured and took (not traded) mostly young women back to North Africa to be sold as sex slaves... and never to be seen again...