![]() ![]() Attacks were launched on European and American ships. These pirates caused terror in the seas, capturing sailors and seamen and selling them off into slavery. There were also a lot of Barbary natives, and Turkish descents who lorded the piracy and slavery business and these included The Barbarossa brothers, Mulai Ahmed er Raisuli, Salih Reis and so on. Among these were Henry Mainwaring, Captain Jack Ward, Sinan Reis, and Dragut. Most of them brought naval expertise to the piracy business. However, just like African slave traders, the most prominent Barbary pirates were indeed European renegades, historian Adrian Tinniswood states. The Barbary Corsairs & Slave Traders?īarbary Pirates also known as Barbary Corsairs were involved in the captivity of European slaves and attacks on European coastal villages. ![]() ![]() People in this region were majorly African Arabs. This was also the scene of the Barbary Wars which witnessed United States’ first foreign land military operation, when Thomas Jefferson declared war on the Berber pirates which led to the end of piracy in that region. They also engaged in raids of European coastal cities. This area formed a part of the Ottoman Empire and was host to a multitude of Berber pirates and slave traders who held sway in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean Seas. The Barbary Coast also known as the Berber Coast was in North Africa and swept across Morocco, Tunisia, Libya and Algeria. ![]()
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