But then again, the second most read story on the Ohio State News site in 2019 – viewed more than 90,000 times – was one that was published 16 years ago. It only starts to make some hazy sense when you find out the title of the book: Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, The Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500-1800. A web search of the book and the Ohio State News story shows why their popularity has soared. “Though faith and race slavery were both pervasive in those centuries, the enslavement of some white Christians can hardly balance the moral wrong of the slavery that other whites inflicted on Africans. In 2020, it is still the sixth most viewed story on the Ohio State News website.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 21, 2020 14:37 UTC