The Barbary Pirates & England's White Slaves
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- The little known story of the Barbary pirates and England's White Slaves.
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Did you know that at the same time that the British were involved in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, white Britons were being sold into slavery in Africa?
For over 200 years, from the reign of James I right up until George III, Muslim pirates from the abducted thousands of British sailors and sold them in the slave markets on the Barbary Coast in North Africa.
They even landed in Cornwall raiding coastal villages and taking men, women and children into captivity.
It is a fascinating and little known story from British history.
For a period of 200 years, English merchant and fishing vessels were regularly attacked by the Barbary pirates and thousands of sailors sold in the slave markets of North Africa - most never to return home.
Exactly how many? Poor record keeping means we cannot be sure.
But here is one example. In 1616, the Admiralty reported that 466 vessels with their crews had been seized in the previous 7 years.
In 1625, a petition was presented to parliament from 2,000 wives of captured sailors requesting assistance to pay ransoms for the return of their loved ones.
Meanwhile the mayor of Poole in Dorset, reported 27 ships and 200 sailors had been seized off the Dorset coast in a 10 day period.
There were reports of deserted boats drifting off Sussex and raids on Kings Lynn in Norfolk.
But, it was the South West peninsular that bore the brunt of these pirate activities.
In 1625 fishing vessels from Looe, Penzanze and Mousehole were found floating abandoned.
In August 1625, the Barbary Corsairs boldly landed in St. Michael’s Bay in Cornwall, raiding local settlements and carrying off 60 men, women, and children into slavery.
In the late 1620’s the Barbary pirates audaciously seized the island of Lundy in the Bristol Channel and used it as a base for their operations for the next 7 years
It was from Lundy that they raided Iceland in the summer of 1647, carrying off over 400 inhabitants.
It was also from the island that the Barbary pirates under a Dutch muslim convert swept down in the Irish settlement of Baltimore in County Cork capturing 103 villagers. Only 3 were to return home from slavery.
Estimates put the number of English sailors and civilians abducted during a 20 year period from 1622-1644 as high as 7,000.
We will never know exactly how many English white slaves were carried off by the Barbary pirates.
What we do know, is that due to geography, the numbers from Mediterranean countries were larger.
Historian, Robert Davies, from the University of Ohio estimates that over a 200-year period, the Barbary pirates probably seized up to 1.2 million captives from Europe.
Other academics have challenged that figure but haven’t come up with an alternative.
Whilst a twelfth of the estimated figure of slaves transported from West Africa to the Americas, 1 millions is still a huge figure.
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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
1:18 The Barbary Pirates
3:13 Raids on England
4:34 Barbary Pirates in Cornwall
5:38 Lundy Island
6:03 Raids on Iceland & Ireland
7:08 Cromwell v Barbary Pirates
8:30 Life as a White Slave
10:34 Church Efforts to Free Slaves
14:02 Thomas Pellow
16:20 American Sailors Seized
17:54 The First Barbary War
20:04 The Second Barbary War
21:09 The British Response
22:54 Bombardment of Algiers 1816
25:31 How Many White Slaves in Africa?
26:19 Conclusion
27:50 The History Chap
Sources include: Royal Maritime Museum Greenwich, The Guardian, National Martitme Museum Cornwall, BBC (British Slaves on the Barbary Coast - Robert davis), We are Souyth devon,com, Statista, Norfolk Records Office, Cornish bird blog.
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This episode of English history hasn't been forgotten, it has deliberately been suppressed.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts
And your evidence of this is….?
@@unusg1 Every school in America.
@@unusg1 The fact that no school is teaching it and no documentary ever mentions it. The fact that the majority of the population will be entirely ignorant of it proves there has been a concerted effort to stop the history getting out.
Spot on.
This story is well known in Spain. I live in Catalonia and many cities near the coast had a double settlement. One on the shore, another in the mountains where people used to flee when the pirates came. In fact, the entire coastline was dotted with watchtowers (most of which remain in place to this day). You can check the towns I'm talking about. For example: Arenys de Mar and Arenys de Dalt or Vilassar de Mar and Vilassar de Dalt (mar = sea - Dalt = above). Btw The twox2 cities exist today.
I was shocked at Ibiza harbour to see a monument to corsairs !
@@celtspeaksgoth7251 True, the monument has to do with the fights between our own (Western) pirates armed with letters of marque to plunder ships of other nations. In this case, the obelisk was erected to commemorate the victory of an Ibizan corsair ship against another Gibraltarian corsair ship, but of course with its legal letter of marque (pirates but duly legal 😅). You know that not only the Moors did those things. By the way, this is the only monument that remembers piracy besides another one in honor of Francis Drake in Plymouth.
Thanks for sharing the Spanish perspective.
Wowwww
Another Spanish perspective, this time from Asturias. If you come and visit you’ll find nearly every coastal town has some sort of defense system. Towers and cannons are quite common. Of course, we had been defending our lands and people from the Moors for centuries and the Vikings before them. So we fared better than most against the Barbary. The Vikings used to skip right over our ports on the way down to the Mediterranean because they suffered incredible loss of life and vessels whenever they tried. They don’t like telling that part of the story.
We were never taught this in school, thank you for telling this harrowing story.
It is just part of the ugly history of slavery.
Actually, I think it's actually this slavery that is meant in the song "National Anthem," Rule Britannia, the part that says Britons never, never, never shall be slaves. Alluding to those very Barbary corsairs mentioned here.
@@andrewmstancombe1401 It's mentioned. I think the question was why successive generations haven't been taught it in school?
This is as important as the Black slave trade….I’ve been mentioning this for years…imagine being taken in the middle of a night of a beach in Cornwall, and then ending up on the slave markets in North Africa….I’d like White History month?
Well I just discovered that my 1950s junior school taught us all sorts that later children were not taught. Viz the Gog Magog and foundation of Britain by Brutus.
But I had not only heard of the barbary slavers but a couple of times became aware that a young girl had gone missing (half listening to adult conversations) and heard the assumption even up in 1950s Lancashire "Could be white slavers".
Thank you! This is the only video that doesn't downplay or come off as an apologist video trying to defend the pirates and slavers. But the historical reality is that including Eastern Europe, millions of Europeans were abducted and enslaved in horrendous circumstances, before, during, and after the Atlantic Slave Trade. Fantastic and honest work.
Thanks for taking the time to comment.
You are %100 correct. Under President Jefferson administration 12% of the natuonal budget was paid to the king of Tripoli for protection so American ships would not be raided. Well sometimes they did and sometimes thw Muslims pirates abided. Eventually the gov. Sent a small contingencie of the newly formed Marine Corps who were created specifically from this piracy.. Lt. P. O'Banion led Several hundred jarheads and mercenaries and the rest is history. Unfortunately our gov. has ruined our military. Semper Fi
All Islamic states owe me reparations for my ancestors who they enslaved.
Just the facts, ma'am!
Libs would call it islamophobia ..
It’s a forgotten chapter in our history because it doesn’t fit the present day narrative imo , this is one of the best channels on here, he tells the whole story without bias , it’s been a great discovery for me ☘️
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I'm Cornish and will be seeking reparations and a Netflix series as I now identify as a victim ..
Ha ha. Thanks for taking the time to share your campaign
Good for you Pete
Can we all claim ?
Excellent, a fight back long overdue.
Pete I'm from Devon and the jam goes on top
@@leakoe3797 yes ... all you have to do is perceive yourself as 'enslaved' and the money's yours ...
I learnt about this in primary school in Cornwall in the 1970s. Very rare to meet anyone from elsewhere who knows the history, let alone in this much detail, and even rarer still to hear the story without political interjection. Many thanks!
Thanks for watching.
I wasn’t…. But thankfully my father and grandmother told me my Cornish history, oral history that has been passed down!
I didn’t know it was still going in the early 19th century.
Most people are not interested in history full stop what's your point?
@@SK-kh2rs Are you American by any chance?
Very good presentation - both yours and Simon Webb’s book ‘The Forgotten Slave Trade’ are excellent reinforcements of a horrific particular history of slavery, which seem always to be an afterthought to that of the transatlantic.
An "afterthought" only if it's thought of at all. America is full of clueless useful idiots who probably think George Washington invented slavery. (And that's just the teachers, I dread to think what the students are learning.)
An "afterthought" only if it's thought of at all. America is full of clueless useful idiots who probably think George Washington invented slavery. (And that's just the teachers, I dread to think what the students are learning.)
Thanks for taking the time to comment
Do you every ask why this is forgotten?
@@ortundzeit It is probably because the slave trade in America was one that was based on skin color. You could pretty much tell if someone was a slave at a glance and even when slavery was outlawed it was easy to discriminate against former slaves with things like the Jim crow laws. The culture surrounding slavery as well could be different the Muslim world was a very multicultural place and a slave would just be a slave, as in a person who is your property. Whereas in the Americas case the slaves taken from sub-Saharan Africa were often seen as subhuman probably because of early Darwinism style eugenic ideas type thing and as a result were treated more like animals you own.
European slaves in North Africa were also much closer to home and lived in a world that would still be closely connected to Europe. This proximity, multiculturalism, and interconnectivity would probably make it easier for former slaves to blend back into society when slavery ended in these places or they escaped. Slaves also seem to have been used more diversely in the Muslim world. Soldiers, servants, and harems were examples used in the video whereas in America it was generally farm labor and house servants.
Finally, I would say that in America it is still easy to see the effects of slavery to this day. There is a wealth gap, systemic racism in the justice system, the gerrymandering of city districts to undermine the black populations voting power, and probably much more. So long story short the effects of the Barbary slave trade wasn't as long-lasting or as easily obvious today at first glance. The USA is younger than the transatlantic slave trade it has been a part of its history since before its inception.
Anyway, this is as good an off-the-cuff answer as I can give. I hope this answer was helpful. Sorry it just kept getting more long-winded 😅
I learnt about this in my English secondary school in the 60's. I'm now into my 70's. History has been dumbed down unfortunately. It is key to a deep understanding of problems now.
We learn where we are now by understanding where we have come from.
@@TheHistoryChap Absolutely. It has given me a sense of national and personal identification and pride, its given me roots and a sense of being involved in something worthy and good whilst recognising the good and bad which occurs within history of all nations and their people.
My daughter's secondary school history teacher has recently said there were never white slaves. My daughter knew better but unfortunately felt she did not have sufficient knowledge to challenge him.
As a US Navy Veteran who served on Warships this is a well known story. And as you mentioned the US Marine Corps is well known in this. In my opinion the Barbary Wars may be one of the few conflicts that were actually justified in both our Nations. Too bad the USA and Britain had to go at it again after this.
Tom, great poor about one of the few wars which both UK & USA might have been justified fighting. Thanks for sharing
it during the USMC’s involvement in the Barbary Wars which led to their adoption of their style of sword (scimitar) for officers, the old way of adopting a battle honour over a defeated foe (UK’s Household Guards Line Infantry adopting the bearskin caps of Napoleon’s Imperial Guard, Soviet forces adopting the German goose-step march, etc)…or so I thought
All countries have had thier slaves it only the black people who complain about the past its should be equality they go on about
@@TheHistoryChap
You mean the British whites that sqautt on Indigenous Lands today???
You think the war is over between illegal British and Indigenous People???
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The Marine Corps Hymn mentions this. "From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli". Tripoli is capital city of Libya.
This is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of raiding Europe for slaves. The word slave comes from "Slav" who were particularly desirable slaves. I remember watching a video of Arabs reviewing their DNA results. They were shocked to find out that they had very mixed ancestry from Europe, likely as a result of the slave raids on Europe.
Interesting. Thanks for sharing
Do you remember the name of the video?
Who was selling Slavs into slayvery? Other Europeans.
@@mugikuyu9403 Muslim Raiders mainly
@@craigharrison6662 Not what I’ve read. Unless Venetians and other Europeans were Muslim raiders during this time?
I did not knew about that particular problem affecting english populations. On the other hand Portugal southern shores suffered much, during more than 500 years, with the north african pirates, portuguese southern populations were one of their favourite slaves, given their historic background and climate indurance. Great video sir, thanks for sharing it.
Indeed, those countries closer to North Africa were raised far more frequently.
The corsairs from the Barbary Coast also pillaged boats from Newfoundland who were doing trade with Portugal, Spain & the West Indies. They robbed constantly.
We, the Amazigh Berbers algerians, were the masters of the sea, and everyone used to pay taxes to obtain protection, otherwise we would take by force, but we know that the owner of the video talked about slavery, isn't it or who traded in slaves? Against blacks in Africa and the peoples of the Americas and even Southeast Asia and East Timor, you are really barbarians
@@mohammedlaib1847 Barbary pirates never possessed such dominance, and even within their own nations and kingdoms, they were despised
@@mauritsvanoranje6725. The Barbary Pirates were the arm of protection in our ancient state, and they had complete dominance over the Mediterranean, and everyone had to pay for protection, including American ships
These are the historical facts never taught in public schools at all. Brilliant video! Enjoy your work sir!
My pleasure. Thanks for watching.
Many things are not taught in schools. Are schools in 300 years time going to talk about us lot bombing Iraq over a lie? 😂 Prob not.
@@SK-kh2rs
Not a lie. Saddam never truly abandoned his attempts to aquire and maintain weapons of mass destruction. Many chemical weapons WMD caches were found all over Iraq. Degraded as they were, the fact that they were not turned over to the UN shows the clear intent of Saddam to subvert international law.
Excellent presentation, this video needs to be shared far & wide.
Many thanks
My darling Cornish Grandma told me about pirates that captured Cornish people and took them as slaves. I said, bless you nan, are you sure..i thought it was the other way round! No one could or would capture british people..ive never heard of this before! My nana said..
"Im telling you, it happened..it was common knowledge in my village in Cornwall,
Its not a tall tale" I smiled and poitely agreed that if she said so, it must have happened!
Well, it seems she was right all along! Just as she was with so many other things. Love you Nan x
Arab and Berber pirates attacked the Western Coast of England, Wales, the southern and eastern coasts of Ireland and even up to Iceland. So many European sailors were sold in the markets of north Africa that the price was as low as one red onion. They were all castrated and usually employed as galley slaves.
I have been contacted by Libyans and Palestinians because we have shared DNA and I have had to tell them that we probably have a shared female ancestor who was enslaved and raped by their male ancestors.
Thanks for sharing your DNA story.
All castrated ? Lol
Are you being trustful on the Libyan and Palestinians?
you are LAIR no Arab
Ever been north Africa
Just BERBER
@@abdibarri9012 troll comment??
Brilliant documentary. I would say, from a wider European perspective and having access to Italian and Spanish sources, that the reign of terror of the Barbary pirates lasted well over 300 years and the figure of European men and women captured and enslave may well be near 1.500.000. BTW, you don't see the Arabs bending over backwards asking for forgiveness for what they ancestors did a long time ago; as many Americans and Britons do today.
Thanks for adding that info.
@@TheHistoryChap You are welcome! There is a very interesting book called "The Paradise of Travellers" (The Italian influence on XVII century Englishmen) by Lytton Sells, in there it says: "The Genoese Riviera was one of the most perilous spots in western Europe...owing to the pirates from Tunis and Algeria who made regular descents on the Ligurian coast and carried off people as slaves" (p.92)
There is no comparison between the barbaric pirates and the destruction brought British and french colonialism !!!
@@damohben5039 The French and the British conquered territories inhabited by savages and left them as prosperous countries; most of them were/are a failure since the Europeans departed; obviously they did not learn anything.
Why should "the Arabs" ask for forgiveness why the work was done by European pirates/corsairs like Jack "the bird" and Murat Rais(a Dutch renegrate)
For years, I've talked to people about this, and they don't believe you and don't want to read to find out.
So I'm really happy you have put this in a short hand easily understood for those with a short span of attention.
Slavery hasn't ended. White slaves still appear in the East, just not officially.
What is the sex traffic if it's not slavery how many posh houses have cleaners that are actually slaves, too afraid to speak?
We should stop telling our children and grandchildren slavery has ended. It hasn't!
It's modern, it fits in with our modern way of life. It's everywhere but we can no longer see it. After all aren't we told Slavery was stopped in the 19th early 20th century.
Thanks for mentioning how sex trafficking is a modern form of slavery. The concept of using and abusing people hasn’t gone away.
Perhaps Andrew the manner of your communication may be a bit, forceful?
Dubai is probably the sex traficking capital of the world.
Muslim slavers generally castrated the men. This is why you don’t see a huge European genetic presence in North Africa. I encourage everyone to read Tales of Arabian Nights. It speaks of white slaves and black slaves. Also it has very interesting stories.
Thank you for taking the time to share.
European people should get reparations from the north Africans
@@jimmyjohnson6232come on! We don't have money 😂😂😅
there is a huge european genetic presence in the middle of algeria algiers medea and in the east constantine ....the west no huge presence
@@abdelazizmetali1938European presence in North Africa is usually attributed to Moriscos expulsion from Spain or from Roman times. Average North African didn’t have European slaves to mix with as the males were worked to death or ransomed off while the women usually went to the wealthy. Most of the European slaves were male while most African slaves in North Africa were female
After watching a lot of your other videos about the British involvement in Africa recently I was waiting for this and you did not disappoint! Thank you for the great video.
Glad I didn’t disappoint
Retired, I spend so much time watching history videos, I really appreciate new (to me) stories. This is also a very important period in American history, so it was fascinating hearing it from a British perspective! Most Americans forget their history lessons the day after the test, but the subject of the Barbary Pirates *is* enshrined in American historical culture in the USMC Hymn, and the slogan/policy "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute". It was the first overseas engagement of the US as a nation. An undeclared war.
Thanks for watching.
An excellent expansion of my knowledge of this period. Sally Magnusson, daughter of Magnus, wrote an excellent novel 'The Seal Woman' set around the Barbary Pirate raid on Iceland.
Fascinating. Thanks for sharing.
Well honestly my look at the history of slavery has taught me it is part of the human condition. No matter the color of skin, Religion, where you are from, it is a part of humanity. An sadly, it is alive to this day. Great video!
PS as US marine I really liked this one !
Glad you found it interesting
@@TheHistoryChap
Absolutely true Thank you for the facts
Immigrants take note !
@Jerry Louis with The Thickness Yes religion does matter but slavery has been around far longer then any of the Abrahamic faiths. Slavery has been around and practiced for over 10 thousand years.
@@MrLobstermeat we must not forget the thousands of white slaves taken by the Romans either
we had a store in a bad neighbourhood with a majority Jamaican population in Scarborough ontario ,we bought it from a old jewish man who had a old jamaican gentleman called pops stack shelves, carry cases of pop , watch for thieves though he didn’t catch everything and would basically do anything for a few dollars worth of groceries at the end of the day basically modern day slavery even though pops said he liked it , we told him that we didn’t think that was fair and we couldn’t afford to pay him what he deserved , he didn’t care he was happy with what the previous owner paid him , when i worked i got him a chair and i told him your job is to sleep in it , he didn’t listen he couldn’t sit still always had to work….just as we sold the store a few years later pops daughter won almost a million dollars playing the lottery, she bought a house in a better area but the last i heard pops still kept going to the store to work for pennies
Slavery has been part and parcel of almost every country since recorded time. My family's roots are Sicilian, and my great grandfather used to tell us stories of Arab traders and Moors raiding Sicily and abducting children and young women to be used as slaves. Sicily saw invaders from Greece, Carthage, Rome, France, and Spain over the centuries, so the population varied in skin tone, hair and eye color, and physical build. Women and girls who were blond or redheads were especially prized and sought out for abduction as slaves in the Arab countries. Plenty of "white slavery" has occurred throughout history, and to say that only blacks were enslaved is false. Even today, slavery is alive and flourishing---not so openly as in the past----but it still exists.
Thanks for sharing.
One of the best youtube videos I have ever seen. As someone who studies history all the time I am astounded to not know much about this.
I have been telling everyone about this bit of history and sharing your video! Great channel.
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Giles Million's "White Gold" is a good book about what it was like to be enslaved by the Barbary Pilates.
Thank you for sharing.
these wars are little known in the US too. Nobody wants to talk about the contributions of Africans and Muslims in the slave trade. Nobody wants to talk about how the white Europeans lead the charge on abolishing slavery.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Hey Jim Kunkle, Why don't you be the change you want to see? It's the American way to speak up & act up!
@@Lifetalk849 You have no idea how vocal I am, or how involved I am..
The book, "The Stolen Village" tells the story of The Barbery slave raids in Co Cork, Ireland, very interesting read.
Thanks for sharing.
Excellent documentary! 😊👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 I heard of these raids of south coast villages and always wondered were the British navy was. Certainly in the 1600s England was relatively weak and focussed on French, Dutch and Spanish foes. It surprised me that, that slavery raids on England and crews were rampant into the mid 1800s. Today we have rubber boats full of non-christians wishing to become Britons..🤔🤷🏻
Glad you found it interesting.
Yeah after 200 years of your occupation to our lands through colonization and interventions , starting wars etc that's normal although i think they are sinful to migrate to godless athiest countries
I've always wanted to know about the Barbary pirates...most impressive video, thanks Chris.
My pleasure. Glad you enjoyed.
What a fascinating, comprehensive and well delivered video. I wish that this information was common knowledge. I'm from the Dorset coast, so it's particularly thought provoking!
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching.
Excellent video, you really are covering a variety of topics. Fascinating as always
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it
This was a great presentation. You taught me so much about a subject that I did not have an in-depth knowledge of. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it
Thanks for this video, an often forgotten part of History.
Glad you enjoyed
A deliberately forgotten part of history! Doesn't suit wokery to have this known. Same with the Irish who took Britons and Anglo Saxons in their raids ( Saint Patrick was one) leading to conquests.
You can't have any of this known widely, it would mean more recent victims wouldn't be treated like little gods if it turned out EVERYBODY suffered the same 😉
@@mikeycraig8970
But this was widely known, old chap. All one had to do was read.
Put down your Daily Mail and join your local library. They will have all the information that you need. And it's free.
Happy enlightenment!
@Robert Cottam 1) Don't try to patronise me, I know how a library works.
2) I may well be able to find one old, obscure book detailing the slave trade in whites, in my local library, but that wasn't the point. The point was it is not taught in schools where as the trade in Africans IS covered in very great detail, across multiple year groups whilst the subject of black people taking white slaves isn't even broached.
But you knew exactly what I meant, you only commented because you somehow deem yourself the 'all knowing one' whilst implying everyone else is thick. I read the Express not the Mail. Either way, both publications are doing well on their own merit. Unlike your paper of choice which isn't able to sustain itself on its readership alone, personally I'd like to see the Guardian defunct and gone, but the government for some strange reason wish to prop it up. Probably so minorities like you don't feel left out.
Thanks for giving an accurate picture of human history. Today were force-fed a distorted view of history that only one group of people we're ever enslaved
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
A 200 year history that many are unaware of.
So many other historical events in British history, it's not surprising that it is lost in the footnotes.
Thank you very much for covering in such thorough detail an important piece of our history that is largely ignored. God bless you!
- From Boston, USA🙏🇬🇧🏴
Thank you for taking the time to watch
hahahaha what an idiotic thing to say , god bless you , hahahaha , it would be your god that allowed this disgusting act to take place , and religion HAS BEEN IN THE FOREFRONT OF CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY .
@@TheHistoryChapI’ve watched a lot of videos related to piracy they all mentioned the North Africa region specifically the port of Algiers 1631 that explains why a lot of Algerians are blonde blue eyes genes coming from the most telling is the Baltimore cafe/bar in Ireland named Algiers.
Greetings from down under Oz
Glad to see this presentation. Whilst researching graves in Colonial Charlestown Massachusetts, I happened upon a Sarah Elson whose husband James, a Sea Captain was taken by the Barbary Pirates and died in slavery.
Interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Well Done! About time someone covered this. A few weeks back I heard the Pirates raided Holland as well.
Wasn't aware of that.
Some of the Barbary pirate captains were actually Dutch! During the period of the Spanish Netherlands, they joined the Barbary pirates to fight Spain, but also raided many other countries.
I'm from King's lynn in Norfolk, and although i had heard of the corsairs, i had no idea they got as far as the east coast! I'm massively keen to learn more after seeing your awesome video. 👌
Thanks for watching
This is an excellent teaching module. Well presented, factual and non partisan, the latter being its saving grace from being removed from circulation. I live very close to Kings Lynn and had absolutely no idea they came that far up! I shall have to do local research to see whether it is still remembered anywhere in town.
Thank you for watching and for taking the time to comment
Once more an excellent story. As it briefly mentioned, the Barbary slavers had an absolutely even more devastating effect on the economy and politics of Italy and its islands like Sardinia.
Thanks for taking the time to comment.
I went to the Amalfi Coast on honeymoon and various guides referred to the effects of piracy on the area, I heard similar in Sicily
@@thomaskerr822 Yes, it had a nasty effect on the Italian political development and economy, until the French took Algeria in 1830.
Excellent stuff, as always, thanks for posting.
My pleasure. Thanks for watching.
Cheers m8, this REALLY put things into perspective for me. I’ll share this with my students.
Glad you enjoyed it.
We were never taught any of this in school in England back in the 50’s. The slave trade we learnt of was how the whites enslaved the blacks to work on sugar plantations in the Caribbean. (and we have been paying for it ever since). I was only aware of the full extent of this when I read “White Gold” back in early 2000’s while visiting the U.K. and saw the book being reviewed on breakfast t.v. Excellent coverage of the topic, I wish more people were aware. Thank you
Well I went to school from 1952 to 1966 and I was taught about it as a junior. Maybe your school didnt teach it. I didnt learn about the black slave trade until I was 11 and then not again till O levels when our syllabus covered the battles of the working classes for decent living and working conditions.
We wasted 2 years with one of those appalling non teachers who wrote stuff on the blackboard that we then had to copy into our rough books. No wonder so few people remembered anything.
Agree.
Thanks for taking the time to comment.
Muslim Arabs took an estimated 17 million Africans as slaves over 700 years. Those who did not convert were castrated. The Muslims took slaves everywhere from India, to Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Europe.
All forms of slavery existed in every country at one time or another. Slavery still exists today in many forms in many countries.
Very well done and informatively educational!
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Great video today thanks for what you do as I really enjoyed the one today
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Enjoy watching your videos glad I found them today.
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Great content. A bit of history that's inconvenient for some in this day and age.
funy guy
Who’s it inconvenient to?
@@mugikuyu9403 Those pushing Antiwhiteism
@@skorrie3849 And who are they? Can you name me some names.
@@skorrie3849 How so?
Fantastic. Thank you. I do remember this British history. Long forgotten but still it should be taught in schools.
Thanks
This is great content😊 packed neatly
Wow - chapters in history this history lover had never heard anything about. Thx so much.
My pleasure. Glad you enjoyed it.
This history should but never will be taught in British schools. You do us all a great service Chris.
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I had some knowledge of this period but until I read White Gold by Giles Milton I hadn't realised just how how widespread and devastating for coastal communities this was. Not just in Europe but as far north and west as Iceland and Newfoundland.
Indeed, it was that book that led me here. Great book, BTW.
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@@TheHistoryChap History is a passion of mine. Especially military history. Looking forward to my first visit to Waterloo next week.
Why didn’t European navies do anything.
Fascinating stuff. Quality clip. Thank you
My pleasure.
I read Lord Exmout’s biography and Gunfire in Barbary years ago and enjoyed your presentation. It is forgotten history that must be remembered.
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Don’t see the black community raise awareness on this for the poor whites of England for this or hold special days to commemorate this etc etc…..
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Black Americans are all not the same, fir instance the Black Americans whose ancestors arrived by slave ships were from the Tribe of Judah. There were Black skinned people already in America when they arrived
Your presentation is absolutely fabulous! I am a historian, and sharing this history in classrooms is exceedingly difficult. So thrilled for your work here.
Very kind of you. Thanks.
Wow !! Another superbly told piece of history...
Absolutely fascinating. Thankyou so much for highlighting this bit of history .
Thanks for watching my video, glad you enjoyed it.
My dark skinned Jamaican father told me slaves come in all forms, and back in the early 70's told me about how many white/fair people were enslaved by different powers over time, it's not just Africans. He always said it African's were enslaved so thoroughly finally because Europeans had guns.. I wonder where he got this tale, but I think it would be orally handed down from his Scottish great grandfather and jewish grandfather. Thank you for this story, it shows how slavery has always been with us, and still is, and now we need to stop it in all it's current iterations
How interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for doing this Chris, done very well as usual.
So when can we expect compensation?
Still waiting for compensation from the Roman Empire 🤣
@@TheHistoryChap aah but it could be argued they already gave us much in return? Seriously though, how can I put this excellent video on facebook?
The best compensation for any of us who may be descendants of slaves is the understanding/insight that our heritage is from people who have experienced and even overcome incredible loss and adversity, and that we are NOT victims.
Tough topic to tackle. Thanks for doing it.
Thanks for watching
the most comprehensive video i have seen on the subject
Thank you for watching
This should be compulsory viewing for a well known "British" sportsman, who has well publicised views on Slavery ~ but not this view of slavery
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Thanks Chris, great video as always .. but I'm just sitting here thinking about it lasting 200 years. 200 hundred years. That's like it ending today having started in 1823. Just unbelievable.
It was a long period, but then so was the trans-Atlantic slave trade
Very interesting topic, thank you for making a video on it. I see your subscribers has shot up, not long before 100k :D
Looking forward to the 100k.
Very good Chris. Some great content and important points raised about the wider global slave trade that many were hitherto unaware of. Part of my family comes from the West Country, so I had heard a little on this topic. However, your detailed level of info ,is, as ever, fascinating to listen to.
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@@TheHistoryChap yes indeed it was very good Chris. When are you starting work on “The Great Game” series? 😁😁
"Watch out for the Bogey men" we used to be told as kids. These turned out to be real Muslim pirates from the Aceh region of Indonesia - still today the more rabidly fundamentalist part of Indonesia. They conducted themselves in the same manner as the Barbary corsairs. Isn't history interesting?
Thanks for sharing a perspective from another part of the world.
A very informative and interesting video thank you for sharing.
L glad you found it interesting
A really good video, very informative. I wished this got shown in schools.
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The network of forts in the Algarve, south Portugal, is a testament to the frequent attacks of north african pirates. One of the reasons for the conquest of Ceuta, in 1415, which gave way to the discoveries and expansion era, was to thwart these attacks and hamper their free movement west of Gibraltar.
Thanks for sharing.
Miguel de Cervantes was captured by these pirates, he stay 5 years in Argel, capital of Argelia.
Return to freedom in 1580.
he was indeed.
wow, extraordinary stuff thank you for another informative , excellent presentation
Thanks for watching
Very interesting, and good narration (melodic, with clear diction)
Kind of you. All those years at Toastmasters International finally paying off!
I know this story well because one of my relatives Constantine Moorsom was captain of the bomb vessel HMS Fury at the 1816 bombardment of Algiers. He was an abolitionist who attended the 1840 anti-slavery conference, a group portrait of which hangs in the National Gallery. He went on to build railways and by 1861 was chairman of LNWR.
Thanks for taking the time to share your family story.
Excellant video m8...covering how man's greed and cruelty knows no bounds regardless of race...keep up the vids m8
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Wow!!!
I was never taught this part of history in school. Never heard about this history before. Thank you for this video.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Fascinating history and so well presented!
Very kind of you. Thanks for watching
Excellent video as always. I hadn’t heard about the incident of the three former slaves impaled on their return to England on suspicion of “turning Turk”, sounds absolutely horrific.
Glad you enjoyed (if that is the right phrase for this particular subject!)
A fascinating video and very educational.. something we get to hear nothing about it in our schooling. Thank you.
There’s loads of history we don’t get taught. Although teaching adolescents anything is a challenge!
Interesting and often overlooked subject. I have found references to payments made to survivors of slavery attacks made by the borough council of Christchurch, Dorset during the 17th and 18th centuries. One small point. The bombardment referred to at the opening was led by HMS Queen Charlotte. There were near-contemporary ships named Charlotte but they were sloops, not ships-of-the-line.
My mistake, thanks for sharing
A real eye opener this, thanks 👍
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Thank you Chris for this fascinating account. What little I knew about the Barbary Pirates before this came from an American account in praise of their marines. It's good to know the full story.
Puts the Barbary Wars into (an English) context
Thank you Chris, once more illuminating our past. Your fact based essays are an important and effective wake up call to the so called historians who selectively cull information (some of a dubious nature) to gain attention and reward. Thank you, Derek.
Very kind of you. Thanks for your support.
I have known about the barbary slave traders since childhood. I am 75.
I just rewatched the video on the "First Victoria Cross" recipient, and in it the History Chap mentions that Charles Davis Lucas VC also received an award from the Royal Humane Society and that the history of the award and it's recipients would be a good topic for a video. I was just wondering if perhaps it is still in the works? Sounds like it would be interesting; but I'll take whatever content I can get! Cheers!
Thanks for the suggestion. Might do that as a private video for my patrons.
I can see Lundy from the hill above my village in Carmarthenshire. I just discovered it was a pirate base for decades when the Stuarts sat on the throne. Maybe other settlements along the coast. Morris Dancing seems to be some sort of Dance of the Dervishes dimly recalled by Brits, which is why the dancers traditionally blacked up. I do wonder about the surname Morris and Morriston north of the coastal town of Swansea. Was it from Maurice or Moorish. We are quite dark in S West Wales, though there has been an English influx. The pirates hung around Elizabethan London, inspiring Shakespeare to pen Othello. Love your enthusiasm.
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You are correct that Morris Dancing is "Moorish dancing" and was inspired by the N African Moors, Morriston derives from the Surname Morris which can be from the forename 'Maurice' in England and Scotland, or 'Meurig' in Wales. The surname Morris can also sometimes be derived from someone who lived on the moors in Britain but not due to having Moorish ancestry.
The Barbary pirates were shrinking the gene pool by removing people, not adding to it; in fact you are more likely to find Spanish surnames due to the copper industry in S Wales. Many British and Irish people today will find some supposed N African heritage due to sharing genes with modern N Africans who have N European slave ancestors, so they do not actually have N African heritage themselves but they have branches of their line that does.
I had no idea this happened in history. It is something i was never taught or even heard about. Very interesting to learn the history.
Glad you found it interesting
These relentless islamic slave raids into Europe for over 500 years inspired the first of the retaliatory Crusades.
Most people have no idea. The majority wouldnt even look
Lundy? Extraordinary! You're really shedding some light here, Sir. Isn't it about time the descendents of those responsible for this slavery apologised? I'm sure we'd all feel the benefit...
Who would have thought that little old Lundy had such a history.
Excellent production. Part of history I was not familiar with.
Thanks for watching.
Not a word about this in schools...
Not a word about quite a lots of British history. I guess we have too much to teach adolescent kids!
As a white bloke that is in no way related to any of those slaves where's my reparations ?
We WUZ slaves n sheeeeitt
Thanks for sharing your question
An interesting (and under-reported/understood) piece of history. As is North African / Arab slavers' role in the African slave trade to Europe and North America.
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Excellent video! Congratulations!
Thank you very much!
England's senior Infanty Regiments' oldest battle honour is 'Tangiers 1661'.
Thanks for sharing.
Very interesting. We always get blamed for taking black slaves to America. This side of the story is often forgotten.
That's why I wanted to tell it.
Thanks, a great presentation. I never appreciated the extent of such activities. It may be a possible explanation if some of my DNA matches are in northern Africa although there's a lot of other possibilities as well. As for setting up and maintaining a base off the coast of Devon, that's staggering. Thanks again.
Phil, thanks for watching and taking the time to post your comment
You just have Berber heritage
I knew about "the shores of Tripoli," but not about the wider scope of the enslavements. Excellent presentation.
Hope you found it helpful
I am quite proud we Americans, along with Britain, and the Netherlands stood up to Barberry pirates. Oh do forgive me Sir I almost forgot to praise you for creating another brilliant video on the subject. And as usual your narrative was riveting. Indeed I had a rather large grin from to ear to ear just listening to narration. Thank you and kudos Sir!
We Americans? How manyt American countries did actually participate...?
@@Lassisvulgaris we as a United States Of America. Is that clear enough for you. Unless you are those silly types that include Central and South American countries. I am laughing out loud as I write this response.
@@fredazcarate4818 Keep on laughing, but here in Europe, America is regarded as a continent, not a country. So your country is obviously United States (not nations, as USA in a federation of states, not nations) OF America....
And yes, I am pulling your leg....
@@Lassisvulgaris the clue is we Americans. if I spoke of continents then the description is given: North America, and South America etc. So it is obvious that if I was speaking of continents; I would mention the continent in question would I not. Hence the term American is short term for a citizen of United States Of America. Now you have clue. No ambiguity and no excuses. God bless you and have a fine year
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Thanks, very interesting. I read a book some years ago about a Swede, biography, who was a slave and he tells about all the different nationalities that shared his fate. Greetings from Sweden.
Fascinating to hear that a Swedish account exists.
What’s it called?
@@TheHistoryChap You know, we are a little bit everywhere and somewhere.
@@polishherowitoldpilecki5521 I dont remeber the books title but his name was Abraham Gillberg.
@@tordlarsson9423 The lost village?