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Why is the Barbary Slave Trade never talked about?

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For the same reason that no one wants to talk about the slavery of the defeated Scots and Irish by the English. These slaves were sent to the Caribbean and America. read more

One impetus for stopping the Trans-Atlantic slave trade was the desire to stop the Barbary slave trade. Western and European nations could not with much consistency demand that the Barbary slave trade stop if Africans were constantly taken from West Africa and taken to the New World as slaves. read more

The Barbary slave trade refers to the slave markets that were extremely lucrative and vast on the Barbary Coast of North Africa, which included the Ottoman provinces of Algeria, Tunisia and Tripolitania and the independent sultanate of Morocco, between the 16th and middle of the 18th century. read more

Further Research

The White Slaves of Barbary
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