Late last year, the BBC reported that historians had launched a campaign to create awareness about the Barbary pirates of North Africa. Historian Daniel Barker explains,The context of the Barbary slave trade was a centuries-old Christian-Muslim feud in which both sides’ behavior toward each other was pretty ghastly. Many died on the ships during the long voyage back to North Africa due to disease or lack of food and water. However, by far the worst fate for a Barbary slave was being assigned to man the oars of galleys. On the fact that many people do not know about the Barbary slave trade, some argue that it is because of a larger liberal agenda.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 30, 2018 08:37 UTC