The infamous black slave trade was no stranger to everyone. The black slave trade, which lasted for more than four hundred years, can be said to be the most tragic and shameful page in human history, which is full of the blood and tears of black slaves. However, there were black slaves, and there were pirates who specialized in catching white people for trading, and these pirates were the most famous Barbary pirates in the history of Western navigation.
Military network - not only black slaves, Indian slaves, but also white slaves, fiercely arrested their own people?
From the sixteenth century to the nineteenth century, for nearly three hundred years, the Barbary pirates, with the support of the Ottoman Empire, captured almost 800,000 to 1.25 million Christian inhabitants of the coast of Europe, resold them to Ottoman Turkey, and then resold to the Arab region, becoming outright white slaves.
The Barbary pirates were first pirate organizations in North Africa composed of Turkic and Moorish people, supported by ottoman Turkey, with a strict state structure, and they used Morocco and the Barbary coast as a base. The name "Barbary" comes from the Berbers who lived in that area. The barbaric pirates' plundering range began in the western Mediterranean, and then began in the Mediterranean, extended south to the coast of West Africa and even South America, and expanded north to Iceland.
Barbary pirates were a frightening pirate force in the history of Western navigation, plundering not only ships, but also towns and villages along the Coast of Europe. On land, the pirates attacked primarily whites, captured them, and then used them in the slave trade between Ottoman Turkey and Arabia.
During the Barbary pirate period, Algiers, Tunisia and Tripoli in North Africa successively became the Ottoman Empire's sphere of influence, some areas became the empire's direct provinces, and some places became the empire's autonomous areas, like barbary states, so the Barbary pirates were also called Ottoman pirates.
From the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, the Barbary pirates captured between 800,000 and 1.25 million European coastal residents and converted them into slaves for trading. Also, barbaric pirates interacted with white European pirates sailing in the Atlantic And Caribbean.
Beginning in the sixteenth century, the advanced ship technology possessed by European pirates made the range of activities of barbary pirates even larger, reaching its peak in the seventeenth century. For this reason, the coastal towns of Italy and Spain and other countries were deeply disturbed, and the residents chose to move inland, and no one returned until the nineteenth century.
At the end of the seventeenth century, in order to deal with barbaric pirates, European countries began to form their own special navies to expel barbaric pirates off the coast of North Africa, but those coastal and ships without naval protection were still invaded by Barbary pirates from time to time.
For hundreds of years, whites were pooling money to redeem the Barbary pirates. Like the United States today, at that time, the United States also needed to pay ransom to the Barbary pirates in Algeria, basically another $1 million a year to ensure the safe passage of American ships. In 1800, the ransom paid to the Barbary pirates accounted for twenty percent of the U.S. government's finances.
At that time, the United States did not have its own maritime power, and the newly established United States only had a coastal anti-smuggling boat force, which was difficult to compete with the Barbary pirates operating in the Caribbean. With the official establishment of the U.S. Navy and the rise of naval power in 1794, the United States had the strength to refuse to pay ransom to the Barbary pirates.
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the U.S. Navy launched two Barbary Wars against the Barbary pirates, which seriously damaged the Barbary pirates and the local governments that supported the Barbary pirates.
After consultations at the Vienna Conference, European countries began to crack down on Barbary piracy, which also achieved remarkable results. In 1830, France directly sent troops to occupy Algiers, turning it into a French colony. The Barbary pirates, on the other hand, lost their base of activity and were eventually completely eliminated.