The Turkish Abductions were a series of slave raids by pirates from Algier that took place in Iceland in the summer of 1627.
Europeans being sold at the slave market in Algiers, Ottoman Algeria, 1684
Barbary pirate
Fjords of the south-east of Iceland
Slave raiding is a military raid for the purpose of capturing people and bringing them from the raid area to serve as slaves. Once seen as a normal part of warfare, it is nowadays widely considered a crime. Slave raiding has occurred since antiquity. Some of the earliest surviving written records of slave raiding come from Sumer. Kidnapping and prisoners of war were the most common sources of African slaves, although indentured servitude or punishment also resulted in slavery.
Raid upon a Congolese village by Arab slavers in the 1870s
The Annals of Ulster record that in AD 821 Howth, Co. Dublin, was raided and 'a great booty of women was carried away'.