Slavery back & forth

Very interesting video below that was reposted recently. Thank you for sharing.

The-Untold-Story-of-White-Slavery-Ottoman-Turks-Arab-and-Barbary-Muslim-Slave-Trade

Additional informtation:

Bounty, bounty, all for the bounty… Every time its own ills.

Becoming a renegade* as he had been to the bigamous Sheik, his last master, means that he became a Muslim pirate, after conversion of faith.

Their participation has been key to the success of that human trade. However, the slave could be bought back for ransom as explained, or in very rare cases eventually return after their service with what could be considered a compensation for their time and work. And in the case of the US alone, 20% of the GDP was being taken by the piracy, and it went on throughout Europe. However, caravans would also come from the African Sahara with other enslaved. All were regarded as human and permitted to worship Allah, which could open doors never imaginable to slaves in Europe even if they converted to Christianity.

Colonial Atrocities against the Kikiu People

It wasn’t done in the mindset of colonialism but jihadism (differently from the current scourge). 

* The word is translated as footmen, but it can be heard @ 13:08 in the vid as a cognate in German “renegata”.

They were feared in the seas for their sailor skills and brutality.

While others worked in the galleys for not being worth any money, some did other jobs including sex work, and any task that Muslims did not want to do per religiosity.