Corsairs of Algiers
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The ta'ifa of raïs or the Raïs for short, were Barbary pirates based in Regency of Algiers who were involved in piracy and the slave trade in the Mediterranean Sea from the 16th to the 19th century. T
A Corsair of Algiers
Extent of the Regency of Algiers in late 18th-/early 19th-century according to multiple primary sources
Inside the Palais des Rais (Palace of the Corsair captains) in Algiers
Admiralty of Algiers in 1880, seat of Captain Raïs, harbor master and Wakil al-kharadj (minister of the navy)
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.