Barbary Corsairs

The Barbary Corsairs, also known as Barbary Pirates, were sanguinary privateers who operated from North Africa, from the time of the Crusades until the early 19th century.

Based in North African ports such as Tunis, Tripoli, Algiers, Sal and other ports in Morocco, they primarily commandeered western European ships in the western Mediterranean Sea.

Their stronghold was the stretch of northern Africa known as the Barbary Coast but their territory was the whole of the Mediterranean, and south along West Africa’s Atlantic seaboard, and north into the North Atlantic as far north as Iceland.

They often made raids, called Razzias, on European coastal towns to capture Christian slaves to sell at slave markets in places such as Algeria and Morocco.

From the 16th to 19th century, Barbary Pirates captured 1 million to 1.25 million Europeans as slaves.

These slaves were mainly captured from coastal villages in Italy, Spain and Portugal, and from more distant places like France, England, the Netherlands, Ireland, even Iceland and North America...

The most appreciated booty was beautiful young women. White female captives fetched the highest prices on the auction blocks all along the Barbary Coast , specially the blondes...
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