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A new study suggests that a million or more European Christians were enslaved by Muslims in North Africa between 1530-1780 – a far greater number than had ever been estimated before. In a new book, Robert Davis, professor of history at Ohio State University, developed a unique methodology to calculate the number of white Christians who were enslaved along Africa’s Barbary Coast, arriving at much higher slave population estimates than any previous studies had found. Most other accounts of slavery along Barbary coast didn’t try to estimate the number of slaves, or only looked at the number of slaves in particular cities, Davis said. Most previously estimated slave counts have thus tended to be in the thousands, or at most in the tens of thousands. Davis, by contrast, has calculated that between 1 million and 1.25 million European Christians were captured and forced to work in North Africa from 16th-18th Centuries. “Much of what has been written gives the impression that there were not many slaves and minimizes the impact that slavery had on Europe,” Davis said. “Most accounts only look at slavery in one place, or only for a short period of time. But when you take a broader, longer view, the massive scope of this slavery and its powerful impact become clear.” Davis said it is useful to compare this Mediterranean slavery to the Atlantic slave trade that brought black Africans to the Americas. Over the course of four centuries, the Atlantic slave trade was much larger – about 10 to 12 million black Africans were brought to the Americas. But from 1500 to 1650, when trans-Atlantic slaving was still in its infancy, more white Christian slaves were probably taken to Barbary than black African slaves to the Americas, according to Davis. “One of the things that both the public and many scholars have tended to take as given is that slavery was always racial in nature – that only blacks have been slaves. But that is not true,” Davis said. “We cannot think of slavery as something that only white people did to black people.” During the time period Davis studied, it was religion and ethnicity, as much as race, that determined who became slaves. “Enslavement was a very real possibility for anyone who traveled in the Mediterranean, or who lived along the shores in places like Italy, France, Spain and Portugal, and even as far north as England and Iceland,” he said. Pirates (called corsairs) from cities along the Barbary Coast in north Africa – cities such as Tunis and Algiers – would raid ships in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, as well as seaside villages to capture men, women and children. The impact of these attacks were devastating – France, England, and Spain each lost thousands of ships, and long stretches of the Spanish and Italian coasts were almost completely abandoned by their inhabitants. At its peak, the destruction and depopulation of some areas probably exceeded what European slavers would later inflict on the African interior. Although hundreds of thousands of Christian slaves were taken from Mediterranean countries, Davis noted, the effects of Muslim slave raids was felt much further away: it appears, for example, that through most of 17th Century the English lost at least 400 sailors a year to the slavers. Even Americans were not immune. For example, one American slave reported that 130 other American seamen had been enslaved by the Algerians in the Mediterranean and Atlantic just between 1785-1793. *** Davis’s new estimates appear in the book Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500-1800 (Palgrave Macmillan). 📷 : Scene at a slave market by Swiss artist Otto Pilny (1866-1936) painted in 1919. #archaeohistories

Vladimir Putin says Russia is at war against Satanism, the occult, and sorcery. He claims these forces are meant to confuse people, lead them into darkness, and ultimately destroy the human psyche and morale.

Dude’s are bringing a roasted pig to @NYCMayor Mamdani’s office!! FCKNG LEGENDS! 🤣

@grok @VictoriaZeev @BGatesIsaPyscho @grok so it's real or fake?

No, this isn't real unexplained footage. It's a viral hoax video from early 2025, widely shared with claims of "figures standing on clouds." The "beings" are either digitally added or an optical illusion (likely window reflection, lens flare, or birds/mirage). No credible verification; just recycled conspiracy bait. Plane windows + shaky cams create tons of these fakes.

This genuine authentic footage filmed by a passenger on a plane, has never been explained….

Bill Clinton Epstein Interview 👀 MUST WATCH

Psychologist: “Why did you pick that one (young girl) and…why did you select that person?” Offender: “No I waited and I watched, I tried to find the happiest kid so that I could steal her soul…”

“Islam Has Taken Over” – Mamdani INVOKES The Quran To Push NYC Muslim Migration

First father-daughter dance held at Angola Prison for inmates who haven’t seen their daughters in years and never had the chance to dance with them 🥹🥹 They will never forget that day ❤️

@elonmusk Meanwhile in Barcelona, Spain: x.com/i/status/20212…

🚨 BREAKING: The Fake News has just been caught red handed LYING that JD Vance got booed at the Olympics in Milan, Italy Turns out, video proof shows the crowd ROARED and the cheers were even louder than for Italy 🔥🔥🇺🇸 They’re DESPERATE.

"With Allah, no bomb can reach us..." Boom!! Watch till the end... Why didn't Allah protect her?

🚨 HOLY SMOKES. Tom Homan just ERUPTED in response to the left-wing media using children to protest ICE 🫳🏻🎤 "Why don't you show the funeral of Rachel Morin!? Why don't you listen to the 19 minutes of Laken Riley fighting for her life?!" "For 19 minutes she fought for every breath, fought to survive. How terrified these young women were to be r*ped and m*rdered. How about THAT?" "How about we educate these children on President Trump making his country safe again? How about we educate the children on the last administration half a million children were smuggled in this country, they lost track of 300,000 of them, and President Trump found 145,000 of them!" "145,000 children the last administration wasn't even LOOKING for. Why don't we talk about the quarter million Americans died from fentanyl across the open border?" "Why don't we talk about the record number of known suspected terrorists across that border? Or the historic increase in s*x trafficking in women and children?" "Let's talk about that. President Trump's saving lives every day!" "The border's the most secure we have in the history of this nation. Less women are being r*ped, less people are dying making that journey, and this country's safe again. Let's tell that story!" @RealTomHoman 🔥🔥