Barbary Wars
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The Barbary Wars were a series of two wars fought by the United States, Sweden, and the Kingdom of Sicily against the Barbary states and Morocco of North Africa in the early 19th century. Sweden had b
USS Philadelphia burning at the Battle of Tripoli Harbor during the First Barbary War in 1804
Brigantine Polly of Newburyport Captured by Algerine Pirates, 1793
Painting depicting the bombardment of Tripoli on 3 August 1804
Commodore Decatur and the dey of Algiers Haji Ali Pasha
Barbary slave trade
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The Barbary slave trade involved the capture of Europeans and selling them at slave markets in the largely independent Ottoman Barbary states of North Africa during the early modern period. European c
The redemption (buying back) of Christian captives by Mercedarian friars in the Barbary states
The Barbary Coast
The slave market of Algiers in the early 17th century
Turk and clergyman with Christian slaves. Jan Luyken, 1684.