Slavery / Slavernij
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Giles Milton,
White Gold, the extraordinary story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's one million European slaves.
First published in Great Britain in 2004 by Hodder and Stoughton, London; paperback edition in 2005; ISBN 0-340-79470-4; 316 pages with an index, notes and sources.

In the 16th, 17th and 18th century at least one million white Europeans (and Americans as well) were enslaved in northern Africa, captured at sea or raided and captivated along the costs of southern Europe, including Ireland and England. They were captured and auctioned at a rate of about 5.000 a year on an average. There were thriving slave auctions in Marocco, Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli.

Giles Milton describes in gruesome detail how these slaves were captured, auctioned, used and dealt with, in the context of religious differences between North Africa and Europe: a great culture clash.

He also mentions that, in despite of al this, the North Africans and Europeans worked closely together in the slave trade to the Americas, in which about 15 million captured black Africans were enslaved.

If the western European and American countries should rise statues in remembrance of this slave trade ( I would suggest dedicated museums as well for a better understanding), the north African slave market cities might do so as well, and not only for the black slaves.