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RedHanded — ShortHand: White Slaves & the Pirates of the Barbary Coast
Buzzing ratingBUZZING· 75%26m·2026-02-10·True Crime

ShortHand: White Slaves & the Pirates of the Barbary Coast

RedHanded · 180

For all the centuries of slavery throughout human history, you might think one group came through mostly unscathed: white Europeans. But for more than a thousand years, Barbary pirates from North Africa (funded by the Ottoman Empire) prowled European coastlines, snatching unsuspecting Christian folk and taking them to…

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