Huge thanks to Adam Nichols and Karl Smari Hreinsson for use of their fantastic translation - www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B081DLCZCZ/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr=
This is an amazing era of extreme importance for the Balkans where I live. Can I ask you to search for a jurnal of a serb janissary that served in Serbian and Ottoman army,lived in Hungary and Poland and kept records of it. Konstantin Mihailovic The guy waged war from Croatia and Serbia,Bosnia,Albania,Byzantium,Romania and reached Euphrates with the Sultan.
I can't tell you how many times I have told people that the Muslims and Turks raided for slaves all over Europe, but people always argue with me like I don't know anything. It's incredible people's ignorance of this subject.
@@Aku6Soku1Zan It happened mainly in retaliation where muslims were taken as prisoners of war and it was limited to very few instances, notably in malta. It was no where near as extensive as the islamic slave trade, which involved slave raids and the enslavement of millions of people.
There is a sense of vindication in the fact that this amazing man’s story was heard by over a million people centuries later. God bless his soul and that of his family.
@Hi everyone Are you sure it's not the other way around? Secondly he was sent to tell the story as a horror story back to his country. Not "released" cause boo hoo they felt bad for him.
I am a Turk living in Turkey. When I was in school our history teacher said that slaves, prisoners of war, and Christians childrens were recruited at a young age and raised as soldiers, and the entire janissary army (the unit that was an important part of the Ottoman Empire) was made up of them. I had done research on this subject and learned that this union was affiliated with the Bektasi sect, that means most of today's Turkish Alevis were actually Islamized foreigners, although I wasn't good at the history lesson very much, but this remained in my mind.It is brutal and unfair but at the past time slavery was common.
@@metallhakNo, before the French it was still called Algeria, read The beauties of the late Right Hon. Edmund Burke published many years before the French and he called Algeria a republic ( and in Arabic the country was always named Al-Jaza'ir)
It's because of Spanish inquisition that the Ashkenazi Jews such as Barbarossa the red beard if I still remember fighting against the christians and allied with ottomans bcz they need money And probably how the Barbary pirates were formed.
Piracy was one of the reasons that the main cities of the Greek islands were built in the mainland instead of the coast and usually in a spot that could provide ample view of any incoming ship. Also the traditional settlement architecture (narrow curved streets, many terraces and narrow windows) is meant to allow city defenders to block attackers by not allowing them to freely employ their numbers.
@@brenda726 yea sure, the Ottoman Empire didn't exist for more than 600 years though.....Turkey was created 100 years ago as well..... being historically illiterate is good and all, but showing your ignorance to such an extent....
@@sfyrisvasileios7799 could have been half a millenia. It was either a millenia or half a millenia. I remember my professor saying it and it shocked me.
@@brenda726 I thought you were trolling hence the sarcasm, so I apologize for the snarky attitude. Look, the Ottoman Empire was kind of special and very interesting. It didn't have very solid historical roots at its founding so it absorbed legislation, language and culture from the Byzantine and Persian Empire. For the first 150 years or so the official language of the State officials etc. was Greek as well. Overtime when the Islamic element became more pronounced there was an effort to convert masses to Islam by increasing taxes, taking male children for forced service as yanissaries etc. Nevertheless, as long as taxes were being paid Ottomans didn't do excessive acts of brutality like Nazis etc. The Orthodox church and the Sultan also had an equilibrium between them so the rights to freedom of religion for Orthodox Christians were kind of secure (if taxes were paid). If you have time to read Ottoman history, not the Turkish propaganda of nowdays, you will see that in reality all of the Empire's subjects were essentially slaves except for the royal family and that in reality many Sultans, viziers etc. were of Hellenic descent. The Byzantine Empire had 32 million people after the plague and they didn't just vanish just because 2 million Ottomans conquered the territories. Modern Turks have almost identical DNA with Greeks as well.
@@sfyrisvasileios7799 All humans have identical DNA. The only difference is the phenotype which is associated with your environment, say black people in africa and white people in antartica. Interesting, the Turks were actually nomadic warlike people who also mixed in with the mongolians and grew into an empire later on. It is a known fact that they are the dominating civilization that represented Islam for almost 1000 years on the world stage (as opposed to arabs). Even contemporarily, the Turkish war of indepenence, the Turks defeated 8 different nations and their belligerents (including the invading greeks from West who actually invaded and settled on to Turkish land) in one determined resistance and basically destroyed them all into retreat. New Zealand, Armenia, RUssia, Greece, French, British, Australia, India, Arabs, sure I am missing more. They are really not to be fucked with
There's still a commemorative plaque in the port of Reykjavík that claims the Ottoman killed more than a third of the island population during this series of raids.
@@pavelp3442 so what? 'the Vikings' were centuries before this incident. so i will repeat myself, what the does that have to do with them being raided and a 3rd of the population killed? why is that relevant?
The first time I heard about how the Ottoman pirats had taken as much as 1/10 of the Icelandic population as slaves, I was in shock on why these stories had never been thought. God bless this man and his whole family, and thank you for making his and others stories more known.
Christianity is the worst thing that happened in the nordic countries. Do you think the pirates could have roamed free around Iceland with icelanders having the pre cristianity mindset?
@@agskytter8977 Christianity has many virtuous teachings , such as Love thy neighbor as thyself , do unto others as you would have them do unto you , etc. ,so I don't think that is the worst to happen to any country , but I see your point . If they were more hostile and vicious , perhaps they would have better defenses .
At roughly the same time. The Ottoman pirates came to my country (Faroe Islands). Two ships with a crew of 500 each. They raided our southernmost island. Took all the women and killed most of the men. Some managed to hide away. When they returned, they could not bury the dead because everything of value, even the shovels, had been stolen. A danish guy, I do not remember if he had been a crew member on board one of the ships or sent from the danish crown to pay ransom money, said that the pirates intended to go north and raid all our islands, which would have meant the end of my people. But there was a terrible storm and one of the ships was sunk. This made them change their minds and the remaining ship returned south.
I think the sad thing about this is the justification for it was retribution for the Muslims and Jews being exterminated in Spain. Evil upon evil, sadness upon sadness. We take it for granted that the world we live in today is safe, at least in our limited places we live, but forget that war has killed and separated and kidnapped and trafficked millions even today. We can't take these things for granted.
@@مرحبابك-ض1ن Those who are evil will look for any excuse to act on it. Humans can't do something so evil with a clear intent, they need to justify it with an excuse so that they will be able to live with themselves the next morning. In all likelyhood it was probably their greed that motivated them for such an atrocity rather then anger or hatred.
Karma ? The Vikings raided every where killed took slaves and plunder. Now it's thier turn to be raided ,killed and enslaved . On the island of Cebu Philippines there are watch towers lining the coast . Each one in site of the next to warn of muslims coming to raid for slaves . The island i am on now off the north tip of Cebu main island is named batayan which means "lookout" and there is still an old fort on the north end of this island and a remaining Wall of one in the south end .
I’ve never been much of a history buff when it comes to learning about the various slave trades throughout the ages. Me being American of African descent of course I learned about the Atlantic slave trade of the predominantly sub Saharan Africans in school but I was actually an adult when I first heard about the enslavement of the Irish. Decided to do some research on it and I was very surprised by how much I didn’t know when it came to the slave trade of Europeans. I also found out during that research that the Arab slave trade of both black Africans and Europeans was around approximately 2,000 years before Europeans and black Africans themselves would greatly participate in various slave trades as well.
Media makes it look as if slavery was only between white and black people, but slavery was all over the world and almost every country had slaves. This should be educated more, not just a part of the history, but to show slavery was everywhere. Till today in some arabic countries.. we should learn from it and never let it happen again
"2000 years before Europeans & Africans": come on ! what about Roman Empire then ? well in the antiquity and before, slavery was somehow a universal thing. the ones that could did enslave others and sold them for profit. this is human history. Europeans did it too: Roman Empire did take slaves, using and solding them. be carreful to not fall in the narrative that yes European Transatlantic slavery was horrible but look Arabs did worse etc... you should verify first with historic sources then make your opinion. Wikipêdia is not a historic source btw, even if it can help to start for most basic knowledge.
Most of human history has been about groups enslaved, and enslaving others. Most the time, the slaves were the defeated group and their families after a battle. Even the Aztec and Mayan cultures had slaves from defeated neighboring tribes, though they never had contact with the other continents that practiced slavery. Hard labor is intensive work, and if a person can defeat another, and make them do it for only the cost of water and food to keep them alive, it saves the first person the pain of doing the work. All they had to do was break the will of the other person.
When Arabs came to North Africa during the 8th century, in just few years they enslaved more than 1 million North African Berbers (white people, mostly christians since the 1st century, North Africa was the homeland of San Donatio, San Cyprian, San Augustin, Santa Monica, Popes Gelasius 1 and 2 and Milthyade...), they took especially young boys, girls and women to be sold in the slave markets of Damascus and Alexandria. It has been a demographic catastrophy. Arabs have been known for a long time to have practiced the slavery of Blacks peoples, because originally the Arabian peninsula was populated by Blacks, whom the Arabs then Semitic peoples coming from present-day Jordan, colonized the peninsula and dominated the native black populations. With their conquest of Africa, from Egypt, they amplified their practice until they had "fashions" relatively to the morphotypes of Blacks to be possessed according to social castes such as, for example, to possess an East African, thiner, was a sign of his master's wealth employing him as home-servant, etc. This History must be told everywhere, the European slave trade exckusively of Blacks is an Arab heritage! As for slavery without distinction of race or sex, it goes back to the highest antiquity. However, the Vikings who left Scandinavia captured too a large number of slaves, from the banks of the Volga to the western Mediterranean rim via the Atlantic coasts.
Some of the best books are autobiographies of this kind. I read one about a Hellene who was sent to Turkish labour camps and one of a London thief who was sent to penal colonies in Australia. It catholically/universally shatters the "glory of conquering" and the "Shame of the conquered" myths and make you not want to have anything to do with slavery of any kind or type.
many people (and many Christians) in many countries are persecuted... the middle east, China, Africa... millions. But yes, those of us in the developed world will likely never experience such a thing.
@@moshunit96 That is not known, the history of the Americas, Asia and Africa before they were invaded by the Europeans, and the history of Europe beyond 2 to 3000years ago is largely unknown, and mostly speculation
@@moshunit96 In the east, yes slavery is still prevalent. In Asia and Africa stories of entire villages being exterminated is not uncommon. These days it's just in the name of extremism or capitalism.
@@davidnunez8561 Don't agree, history just focuses on the bad things - war, murder, rape etc, same as the news today - when do you ever switch the news on and get something positive? eg there have been relatively recent discoveries of cities in the Indus valley 5000 years old, but no trace of weapons were found
@@carmenpeters728no is Christian’s don’t listen to the devil in order to live like you Muslims, we don’t lie about our faith, what you see as weakness is strength but you’re too corrupted to notice, isa is your savior Muhammad is a con artist
@@david-468you mean rejecting Paul? Christ peace be upon him is free of the lies you attribute to him. You don't even follow a bit of the law that Jesus did which shows the dedication Christians have towards their faith. Muslims have more claim over Jesus than all of modern Christians.
Russians suffered from this as well. From about 1550's until about 1680s( Peter the Great days) these raids were a menace. Russians protected their southern border with Zaseka lines( just defensive lines, in depth) with Cossacks and reconnaissance units being in the vanguard. It was quite effective. Russia suffered something like 1-2 million sold into slavery, over that period. But it gradually decreased to zero, after southern border of the Muscovite Rus was pushed south. Grim page in our history, full of grim pages. But entire Europe suffered from this as well, a lot more, in many cases. We had a massive Russian Steppe, as a barrier. And many Zaseka lines. And even a special tax - to buy slaves back. Etc. This topic needs to be discussed more, I can't believe this is being ignored. We OWE IT to these poor people, to remember them, to tell their stories. And to remember who was responsible for all this.
@@julijansidneypicej4701 You wouldn't happen to know a buddy of mine? Name is Tomaz Milosevic. He lives in a town along the Slovenia Austrian boarder . Worked in Canada.
Well...the Russians invaded and oppressed half of Central Asia, Siberia, Poland and Ucraine. So, there is no reason to talk about other's wrongdoings, because this is hypocrite.
Barbary slave trade is also where the ‘britain shall never ever ever be slaves’ line comes from in the national anthem, as whole coastal towns would disappear over night, especially in cornwall
@@Sectarian. LOL- Piracy of Spanish colonial plunders ships led to African slave-trading. This and slave-produced sugar were Britain's largest revenue sources which built Liverpool and Bristol. Then the wealth of Britain came from looting India: India actually had the world's largest economy (over 25% of global GDP) in the early 18th Century prior to British occupation, deindustrialization and looting of India's resources. Research published by Columbia UP in 2018 showed that the British stole about US45 Trillion from India from 1757-1938 (see Prof. Jason Hickel's article online about how modern Britain was built with loot from India). Britain's Industrial Revolution and much Western development was financed by 'loot' (Hindi for plunder) from India. India's world leading textile industry was systematically eliminated by the Brits so that Britain's new industrial cotton industry [copying Indian techniques and styles - e.g. 'Paisley'] could develop as 19th Century historians H.H. Wilson and Friedrich List both noted. This included tariff barriers, making India a monopolized Captive Market for British goods and breaking weavers fingers and even cutting off thumbs of the famed Dhaka Muslin weavers. Governor General Bentinck wrote that the plains of India are bleached with the bones of her weavers. India had produced the best steel in the world (Wootz) as recognized by English experts in the 1790s - and Sheffield copied its methods. French and British colonial observers noted that 18th Century India made cannon and muskets as good as any in Europe but arms production was eliminated. The oldest seaworthy ship in the Royal Navy HMS Trincomalee was built by an Indian Co. in 1817 but British competitors stopped shipbuilding in India. When 19th Century Indian engineers showed that they could design and build locomotives, this was of course suppressed. It was not until the 1914-18 Great War in Europe that India was allowed to develop some industrial capacity - then only due to Britain's emergency needs. They also killed tens of millions of the poorest in about 3 dozen famines created by Britain stealing India's foodgrains for British profit and Food Security. See also Sullvan and Hickel’s (2022) online AJ English article ‘How British Colonialism Killed 100 million Indians in 40 Years’. Robert Clive returned from Bengal with his 'loot' as the richest non-monarch in Europe and his East India Co. mafia became the super-rich new elite known as 'nobs' (from 'nabobs') whilst up to 1/3 of the population of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa (up to 10 million) died in the 1770 Great Bengal Famine created by their rapacity - as predicted by Richard Becher (a relative of novelist William Thackeray). This led to Europe's first Credit Crunch in 1772 when dozens of banks collapsed in days as Indian loot financing Western development dried up for a while. The EIC started peddling Indian opium to China from 1770 (kidnapping children to work on opium plantations etc.) which brought Britain 1/7 of its export revenues for 140 years. In 1877 Cornelius Walford showed that there were 30 famines in British-occupied India in just 120 years compared to 17 famines in all of India in the previous 2,000 years. This was because native Hindu and Indianized Muslim rulers acted to prevent and alleviate famines. The British created them with their profiteering, hoarding and exporting for Britain's profit and Food Security [it was Industrial Britain that did not grow enough food to feed itself - until after 1945 - India as a whole always did]. The Disraeli regime even set up Death Camps for victims of the 1877 manmade famine in Madras Province - giving famine victims less starvation rations for hard labour than given in Buchenwald - killing 94% of inmates. 5-7 million died whilst record amounts of Indian grain exports lowered prices in Britain and the West. Famine survivors were coerced into the new slavery of indentured labour in the Caribbean etc. Disraeli organized the biggest feast in human history, the 1877 Delhi Durbar, to celebrate Vicky being named Empress of India whilst 100,000 a week died in South India. In 1901 The Lancet estimated conservatively from the census that 19 million had died of starvation in Western India during the 1890s due to British policies. In 1936 George Orwell wrote in Road to Wigan Pier that 100 million Indians must be forced to the edge of starvation so that the British can live in comfort. As late as 1942-3, Hindu-hating White Supremacist Winston Churchill was responsible for killing millions in Bengal due to Nazi-like Collective Punishment of Bengal and - after British cover-ups were blown by the press in 1943, preventing Food Aid from other countries reaching Bengal, diverting US, Canadian and Australian grain to the UK. As ever, there were surplus food stocks in India as a whole but the Brits ensured they didn't get to Bengal. Even the Nazis allowed Red Cross Food Aid to Greek Famine victims in 1941.
@@Sectarian. When the Brits 'abolished' slavery they paid huge compensation to the slave-owners for their property but no compensation to the slaves. The biggest beneficiaries were the Gladstone family which produced Liberal PM William Gladstone. Supposed Liberal hero Charles Dickens [who supposedly cared for poor Britons] opposed the Abolition of Slavery and after the 1857 Indian Revolt wrote that he would like to go to India to Exterminate the Indian Race! Of course the British maintained subtle forms of slave-labour even after Abolition primarily with Indentured labour. The survivors of the 1877 Madras Famine (with its Death Camps) were coerced into indentured labour in the Caribbean. Tribal peoples in the North East of India were tricked into the barbaric indentures on Assam Tea Plantations. The so-called 'Slave Laws' in Assam lasting into the 20th Century meant these tea-pickers were worse off than slaves in the Deep South USA as the latter had been valued as property by owners. If they tried to leave plantations before the 5 years were up to complain about brutality, the owners had the right to hunt them down for breaking the contract! The British after Abolition supposedly liberated African slaves such as the slaves traded by the Arabs from Zanzibar. But, rather than return them to their homes the British forced them onto islands such as Mauritius to serve as cheap labour forces for the British plantation owners! In the 1870s Brits in Queensland kidnapped natives from New Guinea to work as forced labour. In South Africa the British forced the native Africans off 87% of the fertile land with high taxes in order to force them to work as cheap labour in the gold and diamond mines. This later led to the Apartheid Bantustans where the natives were forced to live and try to farm on the 13% of the worst barren land whilst the whites had stolen all the good farmland.
The Barbary Pirates are so rarely thought of now that it seems like just a trivia answer or something you memorize for a test, but really terrorized the region at the time.
I don't know about that! Here in America the Anthem of the US Marines mentions "to the shores of tripoli"! So it was so talked about they even put it in a song! But that's just America
I'll tell you what Americans know about the Barbary Pirates: absolutely nothing. I'm a product of the public schools in the USA. If I even heard "The Barbary Pirates" mentioned during my time in school, it was portrayed as the same thing as the Pirates we all think of (as in the Pirates of the Caribbean or the 'West Indies') I NEVER heard about any pirates other than Caucasians who used to be military/sailors and went rogue. The same goes for the Atlantic slave trade and what we were taught. We were taught one thing and no other points of view. A bit of insight, especially for those of you from other parts of the world. 👍
@@endokrin7897 the US Marines Hymn literally says "to the shores of Tripoli" referencing the Marines takeover of the Barbary Coast. If you really are American then please show some respect for the Troops and learn their History. It's literally right there don't be an ignorant American, WAKE UP!
As a moroccan Im glad that light is shed on these issues. We have for too long learned the notion that slavery was only a european thing. The fact of the matter is what the europeans did was not any different from what everyone else did at that time.
@@miracleyang3048 it wasn’t the only time pirates came to Ireland. Also Baltimore was the seat of one of Ireland’s most ancient dynasties well before an English colony was imposed on it. English history books would have people believe there were only savages living on Ireland before the English came instead of the vast kingdoms and Brehon Law that operated there.
When people talk of slavery it’s assumed that the traffic was from Africa. The North African corsairs who raided Britain took many thousands with 600 taken in one raid on Looe in Cornwall. The Arabs were by far the worst slave traders. The last major slave market was located in Mecca and was closed after JFK got involved in 1962.
yeah i am not going to dispute anything you say, but your comment can lead to great confusion. 1. this video is about Ottoman/ Turkish slavers, not Arab slavers. 2. this one is more important. the form of slavery practised by Arabs and Ottomans is far more reminiscent of the type of slavery that the Roman Republic conducted. the slaves had far more rights, they had laws protecting them, and they had the opportunity to buy their own freedom, also others could buy their freedom. although yes their slavery was horrible, lets not group this form slavery with the slavery practised by the Americans and Europeans. The Americans and Europeans practiced far more barbaric forms of slavery. Even in America, slaves had no rights and you could literally kill your slaves and the law wouldn't care. Contrast this with Ottoman and Arab slaves, you can't kill your slaves, you can't beat the s*** out of them, you have to give them reasonable housing and you have to feed them well. Whereas with American slavery, you can do whatever you want with your slaves as they are treated less than animals.
@@Hello-ig1px Ottoman and Arab slavers were just as barbaric as any other slavers. Most male slaves captured by the Ottoman/Barbary pirates were made into galley slaves, with a very short life expectancy, females were sold as sex slaves to be raped by their master and his friends, or put to work as prostitutes. Most slaves in Ottoman or Arab capture had no chance to purchase freedom, that was a rare event completely dependent on the owner's whims. Slaves were chattel that could be raped, abused, worked to death, sent into battle, inherited, sold and if the owner is powerful enough, killed at whim. Many Europeans (Balkans) ended up in the ranks of slave armies. The Arabic slavers castrated their male slaves before taking them to market. The Omanis plundered the East coast of Africa for more than a thousand years, yet there is no substantial African communities in Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen or the Gulf States which all consumed millions of sub-Saharan African slaves.
@@Hello-ig1px A fact what is mostly ignored by youtube channels, is that the Barbary trade and piracy was divided under two different periods. The Hafsid period under the Berbers and the Turkish period under the Ottoman empire. RUclips channels always overlook the Hafsid period while it has intresting stories like the Barbary crusade
The description of Englishmen helping the Ottomans capturing Icelandic people reminds me of Africans helping Europeans capturing other Africans as slaves.
Well the Vikings and English had a long history of fighting and they got raided by the Vikings very often maybe that's why the English helped captured them and put them into slavery
If im not mistaken, a lot of the African slaves were a specific part of the moors from the recently fallen spanish caliphate who ran south and were sold by the empires they ran into. The last of the caliphate had falled in 1492 the exact year columbus discovered America. Maybe im rambling nonsense but i felt like saying this
Seems odd that the Englishmen knew the island, its landing points and its defences better than the locals did... Were they actually renegade Icelanders?
@@BertPreast I think that the original author (the Icelandic man) would have known the difference between Icelandic people and English people, but still an interesting theory, I know that North East England was called the Danelaw, but I think that the Danelaw existed several centuries before this particular episode took place. Edit, I mentioned the Danelaw because that was a strong link between Danish vikings in both England and in Danish Icelandic settlements, which is possibly a reason to believe that the Danish were aware of the differences between English people and how they knew who was helping the Pirates land ashore safely.
Hearing this diary makes me appreciate what an immense undertaking it was and how much balls it took for a young United States of America to declare war on the Barbary States and send US Marines to Tripoli. I feel like it would have been a very different world if it weren't for the first and second Barbary Wars.
Oh jog on, USA ruined countries with no shame ( Iraq/Afghanistan/Libya ). They were the main players in the African slave trade along with the British. Don’t forget the millions of indigenous people killed during the creation of the “ United States “
"From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli!!!" Yes the US NAVY war formed specifically to deal with the Barbary Pirates. They signed a treaty with the US and a few Years later Britain finished them off for good.
There should be a modern movie about it. Stephen Decatur was a real hero with a tragic end. Many places are named after him in America but no one even remembers who he was.
@@leonrussell262 I’ve seen the original Mameluke sword in the Commandant’s office. Incredible piece of history. Yes Jefferson sent them in because They were enslaving US vessel crew members. For years.
Had an Uncle in the USMC point that out to me. Told me Jefferson deployed the U.S. Navy there because they were sacking U.S. vessels and enslaving crew members.
The saddest thing about this poor man's experience is that nothing has changed. There's still slavery in that part of the world and its not even hidden or shunned.
But you shouldn't feel guilty about this, its not your doing and it was the way of the world back then, im sick of being told that I should feel guilty about something I had no part in, the best we can do is learn about the past and share the knowledge so as we can all acknowledge how bad and cruel this is so as to not repeat it
Coastline of Italy is dotted with towers named “saracene” (one of the name for Muslim pirates) that were built to spot and, in same case, defend the local population
@@mirandapillsbury7885 people find anything to misinform others due to their hatred! Turkic people are not Arabs, Turkic descend Ottomans occupied Arabic lands as well as Europe and minor Asian parts, but never were Arabs! Dont know why people say Turks in the same sentences as Arabs. Even in the story, it is confused, saying Turkish (Turkish is a citizen of Turkey, set up after fall of Ottoman empire) These people in the story are also not likely Arab, they were north african people confused as Arabs due to skin color similarities. There were actual other pirates from Albania that were problematic for both europeans and ottomans. there were also the british supported european pirates to stop new found american country tradesmen too. There were more notorious pirates from morrocan/algiers lands (barbary pirates, barbaries) most of which were to stop european advances and invasions! these were usually erroneously used as ottoman pirates.... they were protecting their own lands and sometimes advancing forward! however there were european pirates too!
@@mirandapillsbury7885 Historical fact, they raided from Russia and Eastern Europe along the European southern cost, up the Atlantic coast, England, Ireland and as this shows, all the way up to Iceland. Many villages in these areas moved inland due to the constant raids.
@@cynthiacook1646 why do u need to emphasize the religion? are they not human?are there no corrupt human beings in christian/jewish/hindu etc religions? i didnt say anything about religion at all. I mentioned there were pirates from all around not one part! also they were labelled turkish in the video arabs in the comments which was far from the truth! They were most likely rogue local people from Ottoman occupied lands! There is big difference, many people purposely providing misleading info to frame the Ottomans as the source of these alleged atrocities... and you are stuck with "Muslims", like many uninformed/trolling people looping the same lies! pity really...
this was so well done, and so well written by the poor man. I cried at the end when her wife was able to return after 10 years of absense. Imagine their feelings upon reuniting. How tragic, horrifying, hopeful and beautiful this story was. Thank you
I too was relieved at learning that he had been reunited with his wife but was left pining for the loss of his children whom he presumably never saw again. Overall it was a very well written but extremely sad account of his travails.
@@redplanet7163 Yes i framed my comment badly, i mean't i cried out of that partial relief that they we're able to unite again. Offcourse it's still a deeply sad story anyway cause the loss of their children
@@subutaynoyan5372 I suppose you're saying "What goes around, comes around"? I'd say that's fitting considering your people are suffering because of an earthquake currently.
@@subutaynoyan5372 "Historian Uğur Ümit Üngör noted that during the Russian invasion of Ottoman lands, "many atrocities were carried out against the local Turks and Kurds by the Russian army and Armenian volunteers. General Liakhov gave the order to kill any Turk on sight and destroy any mosque." "A large part of the local Muslim Turks and Kurds fled west after the Russian invasion of 1914-1918, in Talaat Pasha's Notebook the given number is 702,905 Turks. J. Rummel estimates that 128,000-600,000 Muslim Turks and Kurds were killed by Russian troops and Armenian irregulars; at least 128,000 of them between 1914-1915 according to Turkish statistician Ahmet Emin Yalman." "After the Greek landing and the following occupation of Western Anatolia during the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922), the Turkish resistance activity was answered with terror against the local Muslims. Killings, rapes, and village burnings took place as the Greek Army advanced." "During the Greek occupation, Greek troops and local Greeks, Armenian, and Circassian groups committed the Yalova Peninsula Massacres in early 1921 against the local Muslim population. These resulted, according to some sources, in the deaths of c. 300 of the local Muslim populace, as well c. 27 villages. Another source estimates that barely 1,500 Muslims out of 7,000 survived in the environment of Yalova." "The Greeks advanced all the way to Central Anatolia. After the Turkish attack in 1922 the Greeks retreated and Norman M. Naimark notes that "the Greek retreat was even more devastating for the local population than the occupation". During the retreat, towns and villages were burned as part of a scorched earth policy, accompanied with massacres and rapes. During this war, a part of Western Anatolia was destroyed, large towns such as Manisa, Salihli together with many villages being burned. 3000 houses in Alaşehir. The Inter-Allied commission, consisting of British, French, American and Italian officers found that "there is a systematic plan of destruction of Turkish villages and extinction of the Muslim population." According to Marjorie Housepian, 4000 Muslims were executed in Izmir under Greek occupation." "After the war, peace talks between Greece and Turkey started with the Lausanne Conference of 1922-1923. At the Conference, the chief negotiator of the Turkish delegation, Ismet Pasha, gave an estimate of 1.5 million Anatolian Turks that had been exiled or died in the area of Greek occupation. Of these, McCarthy estimates that 860,000 fled and 640,000 died; with many, if not most of those who died, being refugees as well. The comparison of census figures shows that 1,246,068 Anatolian Muslims had become refugees or had died. Furthermore, Ismet Pasha shared statistics showing the destruction of 141,874 buildings, and the slaughter or theft of 3,291,335 farm animals in the area of Greek occupation." 💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Its not PC to talk about Muslim slavers, only white slavers. That is why almost nobody knows about the fact that its still going on today in Africa and the middle east.
A very interesting story. There is also a Swedish book about captivity in the Barbaresk countries ,,(Morocco) written by a sailor. He was there in captivity at least 10 years
Not a lot of people know this but Dublin (Ireland) was the biggest city in Europe juring the 10th century as far as slave trading went. The Nordic people raided Scotland and it's islands, England and Ireland taking whole villages old and young. It was only when William the Conqueror arrived in England that it was outlawed.
Quite right. The vikings stole a lot of people for slavery. I'm from Iceland and the nation is 40% Celtic. The Icelandic sagas are full of informations of Irish and Scottish slaves here. But the year 1000 with christinaty slavery was forbidden. In stead there were working people. Sold in auctions to farmers and had almost no right.
The fortress of Alt Clut (modern Dumbarton Rock) was the capital of the brythonic Kingdom of Strathclyde. Ivar the boneless laid siege to the fortress for four months and starved the population. When the city fell every man woman and child, including the King were sold into slavery.
On the island where my grandmother was born in Greece, there is a fortress at the top of it. It’s still there. Everyone on the island had a little living stall where they had supplies ready to go in case of invading pirates (they could spot them coming, in which case they would immediately take to the fortress and barricade themselves in). This was a daily threat.
Ottoman, Arab, and berber (trans-saharan) slave trades, all correlated and lasted 13 centuries I believe, yet it was so neglected and ignored by governments that now in Morocco for example citizens don't even know slavery was only abolished in 1925.
slavery is well preserved honey and not abolished....... The UN is highly western based and most of world countries from Asia to Africa to eastern Europe to south America refuse LGBTQ refuse feminism refuses the banking system refuses the modern slavery ( salve wage ) refuses western subjective vales ,but yet they push it on all of us. using utilitarianism then the west shouldn't be pushing their values on the majority and the majority can take down the west. that's why in political science there's a famous quote " the liberal global order is neither liberal nor global " ( meaning only western based and other countries don't anticipate on it or they will be sanctioned and fought by the west ). also, this is by definition slavery because they tell us what to do and if we refuse, they punish us , starve us or kill us and we have to follow them when they are the minority. so utilitarianism doesn't work and they are enslaving us. what am trying to say is this system is belt on hypocrisy and when Objective moral people start to realize than they will take action and subjectisim will have no answer when the objective moral people start action and they can't say it's " good or bad ". even if objective moral people did wrong the subjective people can't prove it's wrong since it's all subjective. even so atheist can't prove what's good or bad in all topics other than morality. for example, an atheist says to someone you are Bac-kward and that someone says is being Back- ward good or bad ? here they can't really answer. they can't prove being whatever is good or bad. and so on and so on. what am literally saying now will change the world perception and the moral people will take action. it's inevitable. one thing else if they don't have the concept of good or bad of any subject other than morality that means it has no value ( worthless ). for example, asking an atheist is science good or bad ? if he/she did reply with good and bad they can't prove it therefore, it's subjective and has no value at all since they don't have the concept of Good and bad. therefore, all their " facts" ( which are hypothesis not facts ) are worthless if it has no value ( good and bad ). they can't detect which is fact and not if they don't hold on any value and even if they did they can't prove it since it's subjective. We live in a world that ran by subjective people who can't prove their value or the value of anything and can't prove even their subjectivsim and it's value! Yet they have the audacity to tell us what's good or bad and what's valuable and not and what's true and not. also brain is nothing but an organ according to their world view which means they cannot base anything on it and it's all chemical reactions which delude itself on having meaning when there's non which means all their claims as their existence worthless meaningless and untrue. which means they argue for nothing.....
the history of serbia is full of such stories, the most famous being about the two Andjelkovic brothers,descendants of the Byzantine family of Angels .Both reached high positions in the both empire.One was abducted to the janissaries and the other reached a high position in the court of the Serbian despotate.When Brankovic sent his commissioner to the Turkish camp to negotiate with the Turks on the other side was none other than his brother .And how this man was a poet, he described the event .On that man under the moonlight I saw my mother's eyes.
Angels, y syyc sons, ju tes and their nor(th)man cousins. The 'saxons' as they took to calling themselves were known to be the most savage of all invaders. That IS saying something considering how cruel the others were.
Thank you for sharing this. I really wish more people took the time to learn world history & not just isolate to one region, country or time period. It's so important to understand as many of our ancestors stories, cultures, struggles, triumphs, loses, tragedies & issues. Well done with the reading, tone is spot on.
@@occles Haha sure. You're on a video with a million views in a week, yet still crying about "this isn't talked about enough 😢". You're a big victim of this very evil anti European world!
Very interesting account. On the other side of the Ottoman Empire Tatar raids to capture people for slave markets from the lands of Muscovy/Russia, Poland-Lithuania - chiefly modern *Ukraine* and the Caucasus region were a nearly constant fact of life. I don't actually know if there are any primary sources about this topic available in English but I can recommend a good study: _Slave hunting and slave redemption as a business enterprise: The northern Black Sea region in the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries_ by Dariusz Kołodziejczyk.
So it's really not just white people enslaving black or brown people. Brown people in power totally enslaved white people, & of course Africans enslaved each other.
Hungarian children were kidnapped by the turkish, then brought up as soldiers, called janicsár, who would have to fight against their fellow hungarians.
@SaiyanTroll No, they were not white you muppet. Ottomans were not white, nor they were brown. Ottoman Empire was multi ethnic and trying to describe it as some one specific ethnicity is just stupid.
I firmly believe that the past was horrible. I watch historical documentaries and read history just to appreciate the fact that I am glad to be alive at this moment in time.
Barbary pirates from North African enslaved millions from coastal towns and villages in Europe and England. The song Rule Britannia was written in 1734 to celebrate British navy temporary stopping the pirates. "Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves. Britons never never never shall be slaves".
“Enslaved millions?” Uhm, yeah, okay buddy. Good luck trying to show that the North African corsairs had anything approaching the kind of shipping capacity aboard their light and agile war galleys and even lighter galliots, that could carry off “millions” of people from coastal Europe. I bet you never paused to consider that, did you? Even in a good year, the corsairs were lucky if they could snatch a few hundred captives, and that’s even before we factor in those who were ransomed or returned in prisoner exchanges. Even the most ambitious-but fact-based-estimate of European captives taken by the North African corsairs over the entire period of their existence doesn’t exceed 50,000. And while we’re at it, let’s not forget the untold numbers of North Africans enslaved by Europeans (including, among others, the pirates of the so-called Knights of Malta), going back to Roman times. The Barbary Corsairs’ counter forays into Europe are small peanuts in comparison.
@@samy7013 Add on top of your 50000, all the internal African killing and slave trading, similar to the vile modern bigotry and savagery witnessed in Rwanda, and by south Africans towards migrants such as Nigerians
(Not so) fun fact: Miguel de Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote (the "first modern novel") was captured by Berber pirates (under Ottoman dominion) on his way back to Spain following the naval campaign of the battle of Lepanto. He was held as a slave for ransom for 5 years until a company of trinitarian friars paid his ransom moments before he was shipped off in a galley to Constantinople.
@@wiseonwords Tough? Yes, indeed he was tough. He was stabbed three times at the Battle of Lepanto, and lost the use of his left arm as a result of his wounds. The wonder to me is that he didn't die of infection, like so many others.
The attacks of the Barbary pirates cost Spain the depopulation of its coasts for centuries, that is why there are so many inland coastal towns, on top of hills and fortified. This meant that pirate raids were not very successful and forced them to go further and further. In Spain there were religious orders dedicated to raising money to then go to the Barbary lands to buy the freedom of Christian captives. Miguel de Cervantes, the writer of Don Quixote, was one of them, although it was his family who paid his ransom. For today's officialdom it is a taboo to talk about this, you can only talk about the Africans in America, but the truth is that the barbarism was the same or more brutal than that and lasted much longer.
My favorite is the illustrations, I am Icelandic and the imagery is so evocative and well done, I especially liked how when he talked of people being kind and generous to him there was an illustration of a man entering a main hall that has the host reading aloud by candlelight, since candles and lamps were at the time considered almost a luxury and were carefully rationed by households and such a welcome would have been a token of great affection.
Here in Spain the cities facing the Mediterranean such as Valencia, Cartagena, Barcelona, etc. were until the 20th century facing away from the sea with the coast permanently fortified by the constant assaults of Berber pirates. Hence the capture of strategic points on the North African coast to fight them, of which the cities of Ceuta and Melilla are still in Spanish hands today.
@@javjav3853 They were not originally from Spain, they were settlers from the Muslim colony of Al-Andalus. It is like saying that the British were expelled from Rhodesia or the Manchus were expelled from China after the Kuomintang revolution.
Europeans weren’t considered sub human, which is what their chattel slavery is predicated on. In fact the one who even led the slave raid was a native dutch turned pirate. In addition, Europeans regularly enslaved Arabs, davinci’s mother was one. This isn't even a primary source, but one that was heard from someone that claims to have witnsessed that attack, what's most damning however is the fact that the man that led the slave raid was Jan Jansen van Haarlem, aka Morat Rais. The account writer states that he knew that the captain and his second-mate were Turkish from their headgear - in fact, both men were Dutch - Jan and Mathias were both born in the Netherlands. This entire account is a fabrication by a Lutheran priest written during the Ottoman-European wars.
@@rhetoric5173 europeans are not the cause of all of the world's problems. I can't believe you would turn this around like that and make it seem as though the europeans were the aggressors here when they were obviously the victims, this was a sad and terrible thing
@@rhetoric5173 lol gotta love the mental gymnastics NPC's have to do for their mental conditioning to justify why every race and religion of people at some point were in the slave trade. The logic apologists make is that yes arabs had the largest slave trade in the world and continue it even to today in somalia but its ok because they like their slaves more!
Why? Do you think men and boys aren't r4p3d? Most r4p3s to this day are done to men. Such is the case of US prisons. But m4triarchy looks down on them for being men and sees them as outside of society. I'm sorry but you should look at fleece johnson. hes been released by the way, this is evidence as he confessed it all on camera.
Such an incredibly compelling account. This channel is one of the greatest of my RUclips finds. The tales of our forebears help to put our present in its rich context.
this isn't even a primary source, but one that was heard from someone that claims to have witnsessed that attack, what's most damning however is the fact that the man that led the slave raid was Jan Jansen van Haarlem, aka Morat Rais. The account writer states that he knew the captain and his second-mate were Turkish from their headgear - in fact, both men were Dutch - Jan and Mathias were both born in the Netherlands. This entire account is a fabrication by a Lutheran priest written during the Ottoman-European wars.
Extremely interesting that never gets enough attention. Usually, slavery is just associated with Africans. Slavery in the Ottoman Empire and the Arab world were huge though, and legalized much longer than in the US..
The trans Atlantic slave trade had its roots in the Arab slave trade . The slave traders who brought slaves across the ocean bought them from Arab slavers , who had usually bought the slaves from other black Africans
Slavery is still practiced in the Arab world. They place ads on WhatsApp to sell their servants. Oddly, the Meta guidelines don't seem to be broken by such activity.
Anyone who associates slavery with the African diaspora is that of a little mind.....near every culture has been enslaved, from the Irish to the Chinese to Indigenous of South America and many many many European ethnicities. Slavery, along with violence has existed from the dawn of man. A sad truth. Humans are cruel...to anything different. This crosses all human flesh and race. Native American and African American slavery has been exploited by those in power to continuously create borders and divisions between cultures, to continuously crush the spirits of those who are not Caucasian, to diminish autonomy and cultural power...we are weakest when divided or when we don't know how to stand in our own power. ...that's why this type of slavery is spoken across all the seas ...it's far from being the only slavery known,, and hopefully most minds are curious enough to research history to see how slavery and dominance plagues everyone. Not saying this to diminish the cruelty subjected to African and Indigenous. Also human trafficking/slavery still exists and preys on our children and young women..no matter their ethnicity.
I live on the south coast of france in the massif des maures (moutains of the Mauritian) as it was also very common in a certain time to get raided by north African pirates and the population abducted as slaves... Most had a worse faith than this poor man and his family!
@@yo2trader539 in every civilization sinxe the dawn of time (almost) slavery was sadly a thing! But i hate it when racists try to explain that its all the white mans fault! That is to easy, wrong and racist!
In Spain we have a proverb: "no hay moros en la costa", which means "there are no moors on the coast". It is said when somebody notices that there is no danger in a situation that a risk could happen. In the past, XVI and XVII centuries especially, pirates atacks from north Africa against the mediterranean spanish coast were not rare.
Thank you, I will remember that one. I did not encounter that in all of my years of studying Spanish and even old Spanish literature in college, I am writing that down now.
By the way in a Grateful Dead song they say "when life looks like easy street there is danger at the door" so that's like the same phrase paraphrased, it's in Uncle John's Band, now you know a cool fact too, you know about a great song, and you could translate it into Spanish and say no hay moros en la costa too that would be nice!
The captain of that fleet was Jan Janzoon Van Harlem. He was a Dutch sailor who was taken to Morocco and converted to Islam. His son Anthony Van Harlem immigrated to New York and might have been the first Muslim in North America. Many people from prominent Dutch families in New York are actually related to him.
@@idir_ath_vrahim NYC was originally Dutch and called New Amsterdam. There was a war between the English and the Dutch and the English captured the city and named it after the Duke of York who was later King of England. The city changed sides a couple of times and was also named New Netherland and New Orange before becoming NYC.
While the western states have accepted their history as slave traders, colonizers and invading forces the east has until today not. It even sounds racist to openly discuss their share of this barbarity. One of the most weird conversations I ever had was with a Turk blaming the "west" for genocide the entire indigenous population of America and stealing their temples and cities...then I pointed out that the Turks invaded Anatolia and took some else's cities as well. Istanbul was until the 15th century a very Christian Constantinople as the whole area was a Greek speaking orthodox state. Their great cathedral was stolen and converted to a mosque !! How could even judge the west? They literally obliterated a whole culture deprived them from their ancient cultural inheritance....he got mad. He told me that Constantinople was a promise of their Prophet and thus was always meant to be Muslim. Lol. And still today countries like those, who never learned to judge their actions and have the perspective of the colonization they actually did have developed a thinking of belonging around their countries and continue to claim territories...which is even more astonishing to think. And all of that under the absolute agreement of many people of the west who always afraid to be called Islamophobists. They literally allow hostile Islamic ideology to grow... Than you for this video, I much appreciated it.
Just because you don’t speak another languages doesn’t mean it’s not talked about. Why It May consider islamophobia? Your f”Viking governments supporting genocide of my people with their ongoing war. And you here sensitive of your people being criticized for what they did and still doing to the people a round the world for their so call civilization!
@@blockmasterscott lol in Islam everyone is equal in the west white are human everyone is evolving to be human. You practiced apartheid just couple decades ago. Of course you need to be judged so you can see others as human. Hopefully very soon.
@@ashwaqahmed9656 In Islam it's the law, other religions to pay the extra tax to Muslims as indication of their lower position. And that "honor" only for the Abrahamic religions....i could not even imagine what you would have done to those who practice pollytheism, Asian or African beliefs systems, atheists etc. Apartheid? Do you know how Christians lived and continue to live in Islamic countries? Do you even know how many times the churches of the indigenous Christian Egyptian Copts have been bombed the last year from their peaceful Muslims? Do you even know what's going on with the native Christians of Lebanon or Syria? Lol..... You may not cared about skin color because your primal obsession was always to make all people Muslims. Islam is the most medieval in logic religion that exist and that haven't changed at all.
Always amuses me hearing about the outrage on the western use of slaves from Africa for a few hundred years compared to the eastern slave markets already established for nearly 2000 yrs before the west arrived.
The main reason is that the west actually teaches its kids in school about some of the dark practices of its passed, unlike the turks that wont even acknowledge that they committed a genocide against the Armenians. The arabs tend to think that they saved everyone with islam but forget how many people they killed/enslaved along the way. I would imagen everyone has done some pretty messed up stuff along the way.
@@xxjr8axx Very true words.I think my country has invaded about 80% of the planet, but what was once history lessons to children has exploded into a indoctrination that their ancestry was evil & they should pay & feel guilty to people who have about as much claim to being oppressed as I have in demanding Italy compensate me for the 420yrs they kept my people as slaves during Romes occupation.
@@hiramabiff2017 Americans killed their own country men to free their slaves, and it left a lasting wound where the North and South are still divided politically to this day. Most Islamic kingdoms (minus a few like Oman or Saudi) never freed their slaves. They were destroyed by outside powers like the French and British. A fact rarely left out of history is that the British Navy ended slavery as a business after they destroyed theTrans atlantic and islamic slave trades when they got a monopoly around Africas waters
@@ProtomanButCallMeBlues How dare you speak the truth and use historical facts😉 Your have people running for their safe bubble zones with talk like that.
The famous hym of the US marine core holds the line "from the shore of tripoli" in reference to the US attacking the Barbary states in the late 1700s to early 1800s due to them taking American merchant ship crews as slaves. The Arab slave trade was truly terrifying in that it spanned several hundred years and plagued Europe, Africa, Asia and even the New world. It was truly a global terror.
If I'm correct , then I'm pretty sure that is when the US first developed a navy, and for that reason . France actually invaded and colonised North Africa to finally stop it
@@zapre2284 yeah sure thing France invaded half of Africa to stop slavery and not to exploit natural ressources. RUclips comments rewriting history casualy
Quite common for Barbary pirates(North African Pirates) to raid the coasts of Southern Europe Europe for slaves and plunder, they also made it to Iceland as it was deemed an easy target(Far away, Sparsely populated, Rather poor) with lots of slaves that would sell well in the markets of the Islamic kingdoms and empires, another area that was often invaded by Islamic slavers was Eastern Europe. Muslim Empires liked making slave armies and especially Ottomans seemed to have had a preference for European slaves in their harems. Of course the Islamic slavetrade did not end there, far from it, African slaves were also taken in even vaster quantities, with the men often being made Eunuchs. Thing is the Arabic/Islamic slavetrade was much longer lasting and even more vast then the European one, it also lasted much longer and still goes on to this day in some areas, but it is rarely if ever discussed, not even in a link to the transatlantic slavetrade which was in a lot if ways built on the Islamic slavetrade. It always struck me as odd that countries like Turkey , Morocco and so forth are rarely deemed as colonizers and slavers while a country like the UK is constanly pointed towards when it comes to that.
IIRC, at this point the Ottoman Empire owned a large portion of North Africa, I don't know their specific extent at this point, but I know at their maximum extent they owned at least up to eastern Algeria.
@@hurhursjarf4527 Every country has done unspeakable things it is human nature, i believe religion does try to keep us in check until followers of such religion choose the wrong path and therefore the religion in question is seen as evil by foreigners to it. On the other hand you cannot deny that European countries did the most ! Are you going to compare a village pirate raid to an intire continent take over. I have decided to avoid responding to many comments in this section exept this one for they are all stupid and blame other countries and religions for something their ancesstors have done as well sometimes to a bigger extent. People need so little to hate but fail to see the similarities of human cruelty no matter the skin colour. As you may have heard in this video (true or not) it is English men who led these pirates to shore, it only shows that no matter where you come from it is your morality to blame after all. But nonetheless i read people in these comments trying to justify and defend European or American slavery when it was the same everywhere. You have to understand that the Turks and Muslim world back then was at war with the entirity of Europe and back then in war all was possible, Europe did the same ! So stop blaiming a side or another because if Arabs or Muslims caught the slaves Europeans and Christians bought most of them and went to get some more themselves !
Would be interesting to see a video about the slave-trading tribes in Western Africa. Specifically the thriving slave trade before Europeans explored that area and were offered slaves in trade for weapons.
Nice passive voice there. Yes it was the poor dopey eyed naive Europeans who were offered slaves, and definitely weren't the initiators of contact and trade that offered weapons after their failed attempts at raiding for slaves themselves.
@@tarlas83 Can you read? I said that they weren't the ones that INITIATED the trade. As is they weren't the ones that hopped on boats, and sailed to another continent to try and open up new markets. That was all Europeans' doing. When the Portuguese first shows up in Africa in the 15th century they tried to just raid the coast for slaves themselves, and then quickly found out that that wasn't going to work long term. It was only then that they offered to initiate legitimate trade with African states offering weapons in exchange for slaves.
@@ham1672 Jesus Christ you clowns ARE illiterate. What I'm saying is that Europeans were the ones who did the initial offering, not Africans. Africans participated in the trade, but they weren't the ones who made the first offer. OP specifically used language to try and make it sound like it was the Africans who made the first offer, when they weren't. Dude made it sound like Europeans were drug addicts being approached by a drug dealer, which is laughable.
@Geo S Tbh every society which was at the level of development that the West Africans and most of the world actually was, practised slavery. Especially since there are different forms of slavery and reasons. Especially when people are enslaving their direct neighbours because then a lot of the racist aspects we connect with slavery aren't really a thing. Sadly the sources for this are sparse and often written by outsiders. But still the American society was also built on slave labour as well as hardcore exploitation of minority groups like Irish or chinese workers
He must have suffered major survivors guilt :( He lost his entire family never to know their fates. I know they are all long dead but I still wish them God Speed. I hope they all found some peace in life before resting in peace ever since.
People who live in the modern, developed world ought to read about or listen to things like this, and then reflect on their good fortune at having won life's great lottery. For thousands of years, all over the world, this was the reality of life: brutality and cruelty from one people to another, as the weak were preyed upon by the strong.
I take your point but living in a developed nation doesn't mean we should be automatically be grateful. I, for one, have severe chronic pain. No amount of modern amenities can dull the pain, only medications. If I'd of been born earlier, I'd have to kill myself (frankly, if my meds get cut off, I'll have to anyway). Peoples struggles are still valid and significant, regardless of their prosperity.
@@skullsaintdead Every day, more and more of us become like you, in constant pain with no end in sight, dependant on expensive medications. We once lived in a world of leisure and justice - but this artificial world created in the last few centuries is only temporary. Either WWIII is about to happen, or we will soon be plunged back into the world spoken of above by Darren O. A world where only the ruthless thrive and everyone else suffers. You can see it going in that direction more and more each day. We will once again have to live in a world where education is a privilege for only the few, where magic is revered, where the earth is flat, slaves are the norm, and justice is only for the rich.
It's going to happen again and already is occurring when we go to a digitized monetary system. You can never trust the human species they will let you down every time
I find it interesting that he took so much time out of this tragic story to describe a Dwarf couple he just happened to pass upon, and found it worthy of mention.
Slavery occurred 11,000 years ago during the so-called Neolithic Revolution, when the foundations of agriculture were laid. The slave system evolved massively into large civilizations such as Sumer, Ancient Egypt, Nubia, Ancient China, the Akkadian Empire, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Ancient Greece, India, the Roman Empire, the Arab Caliphate and Sultanate, pre-Columbian civilizations. So until now we have established that slavery has been the basis of society throughout history.And so we come to answer "Why was slavery so important?". The answer is incredibly simple. For economic reasons, beyond any justification of superiority. The cheap work handset defines what some people today call neo-slavery. When you have cheap labor, you have products. When you have products, you have money.
Barbary pirates were mostly independent they only called for war when needed. think of it like a vassal. Also what i have to do with north african pirates as a Turkish man living in Türkiye? i neither descent from them nor had any relation with them whatsoever lol@@catinthehat906
Slavery was a world trade whether domestic or international and very few can claim clean hands historically. This man, despite all he went through, was one of the lucky ones.
the merchant class (jews) started the trans-atlantic slave trade, which was by far the most brutal slave trade ever. the "slavs" were more like indentured servants. They also hired private mercenary groups like teutonic order and templars to wipe out the last stronghold of pagan countries (lithuana, poland), paid for by the "roman"-catholic church
I believe that the Eskimo and Inuits were completely unaware of the concept of slavery before Russians introduced it. Also there is a huge difference between "The Slave Trade" and "POW Slavery" with the latter being the most common among the indigenous peoples from Sub-Saharan Africa to the Americas. Not Australia though as the Aborigines there had no concept either until the Brits arrived.
These pirates were at the North African part of the continent which is Mediterranean and they have nothing to do with sub-saharan african (what you call in the US black ppl or African ppl)
Muslims justifying this slave trade by saying ottomans were merciful disgusts me. There is no account of them being merciful. Even if they were, slavery is wrong, no matter how it is.
Which Muslims justified this..? Enslaving free people is haram, Abu Huraira reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: وَرَجُلٌ بَاعَ حُرًّا فَأَكَلَ ثَمَنَهُ “Allah will oppose a man who sells a free person and consumes the price.” Source: Sahih Bukhari 2114, Grade:
You do know that Danes, Swedes, etc also did this for hundreds of years right? It's a fact of human history, those who were powerful, abused the weak. It's not a race or religion thing. Christians did this too, heck, they even waged holy wars in the same manner as Jihad..
In research that I did in the past, I learned that all black, male slaves taken by muslims, were required to be castrated. This was not true of black slaves taken to countries in the Americans. Seems that after you hey were castrated, they were buried up to their neck in sand for a period of time-to heal!!’
It is important to know that this was written after he returned which was an ordeal itself. Captives who returned were eyed suspiciously by the government and had to prove they had not converted to Islam and held fast to Christian ideals. The church required that the former captives go through a sort of deprogramming 're-education' course in Denmark that lasted about 2 months. This narrative helped persuade the authorities that he was worthy of being allowed to return to Iceland as a free man.
well and that was likely with good cause, as you see that the priates used maybe converted englishmen and thus to know of ankerage places and general topography, there was always a fear that converts would at night help to facilitate ottoman landings.
Nowadays Western governments do the exact opposite of this deprogramming. In order to rise to the upper echelons of society, citizens now have to prove they worship the approved tenets of gender fluidity, violent activism, surveillance, innocence of all melanated criminals, Eastern religions, occult practices, abortion, open borders, gun confiscation, medical mandates, segregation, censorship, etc.
It was the same with new Muslims living in Muslim lands. They were viewed with suspicion and expected/forced to practice religious rituals and customs. Edit: This still exists although not that extreme. The converts are expected to wear a full traditional attire and pray regularly and change their name. Well this happens where I live don't know about the rest.
I can't imagine the pain this man and many others went through. I have children and it breaks my heart just thinking of them being taken away. This maybe a factual story from history but let's not forget slavery is still present in every country: human trafficking, sex slavery etc. Let's challenge ourselves to ask what we can do to stop this terrible practice.
What about finding that your ancestors were European slaves like Slavic ?? , I'm a white berber my grandmother told me that we have Slavic origins because of the slavery many white Berbers they are descendants of these poor slaves and they don't know
You know what? If Ubisoft makes an Assasin's Creed game about this guy slaughtering his captors, I'll buy the Yasuke one too. I'll respect the principled stance
Ottomans were big time slavers, for hundreds of years. The Janissaries (from yeniçeri, meaning 'new soldier' in Turkish) were an elite standing force of infantrymen, first formed by the Ottoman Sultan Murad I around 1380. Legally slaves of the sultan, they served over the centuries as bowmen, crossbowmen and musketeers. This practice was abandoned in 1826 - a long run lasting over 400 years. During Turkish raids, small boys were especially coveted plunder. Turkish warriors kidnapped young Christian boys and gave them as a gift to the sultan. Sultan converted them into Islam. These boys became Janissaries. This was known as Devshirme, Ottoman Turkish: دوشیرمه, devşirme; usually translated as "child levy" or "blood tax"
As are the Ashkenazis, also for hundreds of years, with huge effects felt globally. They had the near monopoly on the African American Slave Trade, among many other slaving operations. They even used to enslave the Irish and ship them to the Caribbean to work on the sugar plantations. It seems the Turks and the Ashkenazis are fond of young boys.
Devshirme system doesn’t contain the brutalism and barbarism you speak of. Its totally different than the conventional slavery where the kids are neither kidnapped nor forced. Those kids used to attend several tests to prove their intelligence in order to be part of the devshirme system. Devshirme kids were never taken during raids, since devshirme kids only came from the Ottoman controlled territories. Besides officials were very strict about not taking the only children of families also no overweight etc. Only a small portion of those kids became soldiers. Majority of those kids were selectively trained and delegated for the most vital positions of the state.
Gave them as a gift? Sultan coverted them to islam? Jannisary corps were more than 120.000 soldiers at one point. Its a millitary recuitment system. Its not based on gifts
@@U87-z2w Devshirme is *NOT* a military recruitment system. Military recruitments were done by Beylerbeyi (Governor) for "Kara Askerleri" (regular infantry), Sipahis (heavy cavalry) and Akinjis (light cavalry). Janissaries and Kapikulu are the elite soldiers of Sultan which only served as special ops (Guarding Sultan and Pashas) and policemen. Janissaries were no more than 14.000 and had a very similar martial structure with the Roman Pretorian guards. Their primary duty was to serve as policemen in the major Ottoman cities and the border castles. The 120k number that you refer might be correct after 17th Century in which the Janissary culture was completely broken where they used to record "fake names" (mostly Albanians) to cash some extra bucks which resulted with a terrible disorder in the community. In reality Janissaries never exceeded 30k. The Janissaries and Kapikulu originate from the Devshirme children. However only a small portion of those children became soldiers. Most of them received vital positions and duties in the bureaucracy depending on their talents and capabilities. They were not "gifts" to Sultan but "selected kids" from lower class who received incomparable privileges compared to the other children. Most of those families were willing to send their kids to the capital for education since the opportunity only came once in a lifetime.
@@bledacifter5684 My point is people are mixing up harem, the regular slavery and devshirme system all together and then say dumb stuff like janissary were a gift to sultan. As if Ottomans picked up young boys made them go pick up cotton all day, serve Sultan as a sex slave and then were sent off to army to fight in war. They have no idea what they are talking about.
Bless this man. One thing I find quite fascinating (around 8 minutes in) is how despite all the beatings he was subjected to at the hands of his captors, he still retains a degree of respect and nonchalance towards them. He doesn’t paint them as purely comically evil, but also records how they generally avoided mistreating the other captives where possible. Whereas I’d imagine that were I in his situation I would have nothing but total contempt for the privateers. Also noting how many in fact weren’t Turkish corsairs but were Christian Hungarians, Germans and Dutch privateers. Probably what I found most intriguing and unexpected was how he notes that the most brutal amongst them were people who are/were initially European Christian themselves.
kind of reminds me of how the worst perpetrators of atrocities during the Chinese cultural revolution were the children of the victims who had been brainwashed upon their parent's deaths. I guess they feel the most need to prove that they are loyal to their new way of life.
Good point, reality is never pure black and white indeed. I reckon it should also be noted that this raid to Iceland is done by Reis Mourad the Younger (Jan Janszoon), who was a Dutch pirate who converted to Islam.
@@garrymcdonald5456 We didn't displace or genocide anyone in Palestine bud, and we let the jews live their unlike the crusader b*rbarians who basically massacred everything that's not catholic, or the joos who displaced everything non-jooish the moment the UN gave the most of palestine.
You know, it would be great if this stuff was taught in American schools. We barely learn about the countries outside of our continent unless it directly affected the creation or glory of this country. I'm convinced that a large number of Americans think that slavery was invented by either the Brits, or just Americans as a whole, and that it was only ever used against innocent, kidnapped African families that were just minding their own business. Slavery has been an issue since Mankind had more than one tribe to fight against, and it still exists, unfortunately. We honestly to a major disservice to the struggle of the slave, past and present, by teaching it the way we do - that it's only ever Anglos targeting Africans, rather than teaching that it happened to basically every culture and _why_ it's awful
@@kaktus3856 Even then, Portugal is the one that kicked it off, but hardly any Americans know that much. Granted, I don't think most Americans know that Portugal exists I'd say that, unfortunately, that was probably inevitable for the time. Higher structure and better technology is great and all, but I'm pretty sure that what lead to exactly that industrious use of human labor. Thank goodness we wrapped back around to having cheaper, more accurate industrious labor for grand scale things that can never suffer (being machinery), or else I'd worry about some psychopathic culture trying to bring slavery back in the open
Here in modern times we applaud shows and movies that depict these parts of history. I enjoy them very much myself but am quite glad I've never lived it.
There are millions of women and child sex slaves around the world, right now. It's not just history. What they experience is just as horrific as any other time period. Slavery is more profitable than any other criminal activity, at least $30 billion worldwide. You are correct to be quite glad you are not living it.
@@paulh2468 I know modern slavery exists but I was commenting on the context of the video. I don't see shows or movies today showing what happening today. Hmm... wonder why...🤫🤔🤐
Wow the brutality of what humans are capable of makes me so grateful for my circumstances I couldn’t imagine my wife and child separated from me I would go berserk
How horrible it was that he could never see or find out what became of his children, I can't imagine the horror and grief he and his wife had to live with... Also his son sounds like such a great kid, so brave and steadfast despite just being 11 and torn away from his family to life of slavery in a foreign world. I wonder what became of him. This is probably the saddest video I've seen from this channel, but thank you so much for posting and educating us Voices of the Past
This happens in divorce courts every day in America as Fathers are separated from their children and never reunited as the kids become brainwashed by the Mother and the school system.
@@dmekkkkkwkkkkkk janissary was an elite soldier in the Turkish and Ottoman armies, trained from childhood to adulthood and very loyal to the ruler, they were mostly used similarly to modern day special forces or "Republican Guards" or Secret Service, bodyguards to the rulers. They formed the first modern professional standing armies in Europe. They were manned by non muslims and non jews captured in slave raids and sold or from boys given as tribute or tax, then rigorously trained into highly disciplined and fiercely loyal crack troops. Despite being slaves they were paid salaries and received pensions after retirement.
This also happened in India, millions of Hindus were slain, impaled and forced to convert to Islam or pay jiziya or even sold as slaves in Iran, Turkey, Arab states from far-off Afghanistan( The Hindu Kush). Famines and droughts were orchestrated like the British and money was given to poor Hindu-Buddhists as incentives to convert, similar to the British and Christian ricebags. We had our own problems, but we never see Muslims here reading their real history or having any sort of remorse for their actions here( its all rosy for them), they think a handful of Sufis were enough to convert whole India to Islam and us Hindu-Buddhists as Africans. 80000 to 100000 temples were destroyed during the Mughal rule alone, as an estimate. If European Christians were responsible for massacres, then why can't the the middle-east be held accountable for their crimes against the Indians and Africans? Most African descendants in India were due to the so-called Slave trade, managed by Arabs, Persians and Turks, as a testimonial.
@@patriciusvunkempen102 He meant dwarfism, makes sense it'd be more common in a big city like that. Believe it or not, in the capital Konstantinniye, they had 'court dwarves'. As I'm writing this, I see a bunch of other European courts had them as well. They seem to have done the same service as court jesters, unfortunately, being targets of amusement for their condition. They also would stand by rulers to make the rulers seem more imposing. Weird times.
@@zonkerharris1144 Can no one be amused? Must it conform to your liking to be permitted? All you do is leave unproductive and mean comments. Get a life.
The fact he kept his faith after all that is astonishing, beautiful, but also scary, I don't know if I could be tested like that, truly many of these people are saints now
People were generally so much tougher then than now; and of course faith was a real thing then, that enabled people to endure all sorts of pain and suffering.
@@blowingfree6928 yeah and they had an other "relationship" with death and pain then ppl have now. Ofc noone wanted to die then either, but it wasnt that tragic and scary as it is now. The reason for that is that they came across death and pain way more often then we do now : wrong going births where a lot of women and kids died, cruel rulers who had no problem with killing and punishing ppl, raidings as it is described in this video, or lethal cancer and starvation. It was just more "normal".
Oh it is just his eloquence giving depth to the experience, truth is he was handled much better than the British, French and Prussians handled black enslaved people, i mean lad was eating bread warm from the oven 😂.
@@TheHolladiewaldfeee First one is true but second half not.. More children die today mainly from leglisation of bad behavior from you know.. the ones giviing birth, the ones you know.. starting with w..
In Italy there's this popular proverb that says "Mamma li turchi!" (Mom the turks!) and it's still used, even in a easy way, to indicate a scourge, and something dangerous. This because the coasts of Italy were constantly attacked by saracens in the middle ages, and by barbary corsairs and turkish ottomans in the modern era. For more than 1000 years (720 to 1800) hundreds of thousands of people were kidnapped and sold as slaves in North Africa and Turkey. The coasts of Italy are still covered by watch towers, called "torri saracene" (saracen's towers) and little forts builded with the purpose of warning the people for these attacks and sheltering them. This history is known vaguely by most people only because the trauma for these attacks was deeply dig in the "popular culture". But actually we know very little about this stuff, and above all, we don't know the magnitude and the massive numbers of slaves that those raids made. Even i, as a history lover, find out very recently about the massive scale of those attacks, and how real and terrible in those time was the cry "Mamma li turchi!". And this was the same on the coasts of all Europe, and even worse in the Balcans and on the Ukrainian-Russian-Polish frontiers, were millions were enslaved by turks and tatars. Schools completely avoid the subject (but obviously talk A LOT about the evil crusaders and the North atlantic slave trade). I wonder why....
Since you like history , just look also for the raids of europeens on the north africain coast for centuries and look also for what did the spanish to the andalusians muslims and jewish people and how they followed them to the coast of North Africa, the majority of the barbaric pirates were europeens themselves ! Search well you will discover a lot of controversies
Every body was imperialist in those times LOL, Ottomans helped to Ireland in the patato crisis, saved jews from spanish, saved muslims from massacker Christian empires. We all know what Europeans did in Africa and America. I don't support ottoman Slave trade but you said like they were the only ones who were bad. Also in this video its about iceland. Vikings raped women and killed children, 10% of the England has Scandinavian DNA. Nobody is innocent
@DriftZ TwoSeven worse was definetly Belgians, I am white and turkish. Spanish, Belgians, and British is 10 times worse than what is happening in here.
@@mariamd3368 Wow, you just listed a partial fact after the other. The barbaric pirates were not in majority europeans, lmao. This assumption, alone discarded your entire argument. There were of course, europeans between them. Mostly converts who were once slaves and converted to islam to leave the roam on the galleys. But saying that they were the majority? Ahaha! Also, of course there were christians raid, but sorry, the magnitude, the frequency and above all, the numbers of slaves taken are just incomparable. The barbary raids were endemic. The christian raids were occasional. Malta Knights and other little italian corsairs were the only ones engaged in such affairs, and they had few ship. So they just couldn't take a lot of captives on boards. Meanwhile ten of thousands of people were kidnapped by barbaries and ottomans every year. The enslaved population on the barbary states was huge. Those states almost only worked thanks to that workforce. Only thing you're right is about the spanish treatment of moors and jews. Awful, of course. But that is a widely know history. We studied it back in high school. My point is that for some (VERY MISTERIOUS) reason, right now they only talk about the crimes of euros. And act like the other people were just saints, that never hurted a fly, and were eventually attacked and conquered by the evil euros. Euros only won the wars of the last two hundred years. You can see nowadays, in every part of the world, how the winners treat the losers, especially if they are from another ethnic/religious background. But for some reason, it's worse when a euros do it. And it's cultural and somehow excusable when the others do it. To me, this is peak hypocrisy.
It's even more terrifying to know that there are more slaves in the world today, than back then (est. 30-40 million at least). How do such people live with themselves?
Here the US slavery is illegal...except in our prison system. Some of the same families that gained their wealth in the southern states days of slave labor today are enriched by slave labor in our penitentiaries.
Fun fact : the most famous European slave in Morocco was a dutchman called van harlem he later became a General in the moroccan navy and later the governor of the city of al walidiya his son anthony brought a land in new York what is called today harlem
Nope Morocco wasn't a part of the Ottoman Empire and the pirates in Morocco were independants , they even create their own republic called Sale (Morocco have never worked for the Ottomans)@@Error-nc8yc
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This is an amazing era of extreme importance for the Balkans where I live.
Can I ask you to search for a jurnal of a serb janissary that served in Serbian and Ottoman army,lived in Hungary and Poland and kept records of it.
Konstantin Mihailovic
The guy waged war from Croatia and Serbia,Bosnia,Albania,Byzantium,Romania and reached Euphrates with the Sultan.
can u do roman views of Hinduism and India?
More accounts please
@@temistogen but wasn't he Muslim?
What about his son? ...and infant? Any account?
I can't tell you how many times I have told people that the Muslims and Turks raided for slaves all over Europe, but people always argue with me like I don't know anything. It's incredible people's ignorance of this subject.
Did you also tell them that it was done by both sides? Europeans enslaved Turks too. It was a war of sea domination.
you still talk to normies?
please dont use this video to promote your racist agenda.
most slavers were white
@@CitrusMenace are you humorously playing along with the first reply to this comment or being serious?
@@Aku6Soku1Zan It happened mainly in retaliation where muslims were taken as prisoners of war and it was limited to very few instances, notably in malta. It was no where near as extensive as the islamic slave trade, which involved slave raids and the enslavement of millions of people.
There is a sense of vindication in the fact that this amazing man’s story was heard by over a million people centuries later. God bless his soul and that of his family.
Why was he released and allowed to return home?
God is not going to bless them as they themselves took part of enslaving others.
@Hi everyone Are you sure it's not the other way around?
Secondly he was sent to tell the story as a horror story back to his country. Not "released" cause boo hoo they felt bad for him.
@Hi everyone How many films do you know about the bad things that YOUR ancestors did vs the bad things that westerners did.
@Hi everyone Last time I checked hollywood can't wait
Broke my heart when his 11 year old son was taken away from him and he said, "I shall never forget him as long as I live".
His son being taken broke my heart , i sit here in tears for all those from across Europe who suffered at the hands of these barbaric turks ,.......
I am a Turk living in Turkey. When I was in school our history teacher said that slaves, prisoners of war, and Christians childrens were recruited at a young age and raised as soldiers, and the entire janissary army (the unit that was an important part of the Ottoman Empire) was made up of them. I had done research on this subject and learned that this union was affiliated with the Bektasi sect, that means most of today's Turkish Alevis were actually Islamized foreigners, although I wasn't good at the history lesson very much, but this remained in my mind.It is brutal and unfair but at the past time slavery was common.
@@Celtopia Bruh
@@Celtopiawow you ppl are insane
@@kadir1547 Were your ancestors European?
They were mainly Barbary pirates, from what is today Morocco and Algeria. There's a book titled "White Gold", well researched and worthwhile reading!
Que la Algérie 🇩🇿
@@kaporaldz922 ruled by Ottoman Caliphate before it Byzantine Empire wasn't named algeria till the French took over
@@metallhakNo, before the French it was still called Algeria, read The beauties of the late Right Hon. Edmund Burke published many years before the French and he called Algeria a republic ( and in Arabic the country was always named Al-Jaza'ir)
They were French, English, German, Dane pirates working under the Ottomons.
It's because of Spanish inquisition that the Ashkenazi Jews such as Barbarossa the red beard if I still remember fighting against the christians and allied with ottomans bcz they need money And probably how the Barbary pirates were formed.
Piracy was one of the reasons that the main cities of the Greek islands were built in the mainland instead of the coast and usually in a spot that could provide ample view of any incoming ship. Also the traditional settlement architecture (narrow curved streets, many terraces and narrow windows) is meant to allow city defenders to block attackers by not allowing them to freely employ their numbers.
didnt work too well since the greeks became the slaves of turks for almost 1,000 years
@@brenda726 yea sure, the Ottoman Empire didn't exist for more than 600 years though.....Turkey was created 100 years ago as well..... being historically illiterate is good and all, but showing your ignorance to such an extent....
@@sfyrisvasileios7799 could have been half a millenia. It was either a millenia or half a millenia. I remember my professor saying it and it shocked me.
@@brenda726 I thought you were trolling hence the sarcasm, so I apologize for the snarky attitude. Look, the Ottoman Empire was kind of special and very interesting. It didn't have very solid historical roots at its founding so it absorbed legislation, language and culture from the Byzantine and Persian Empire. For the first 150 years or so the official language of the State officials etc. was Greek as well. Overtime when the Islamic element became more pronounced there was an effort to convert masses to Islam by increasing taxes, taking male children for forced service as yanissaries etc. Nevertheless, as long as taxes were being paid Ottomans didn't do excessive acts of brutality like Nazis etc. The Orthodox church and the Sultan also had an equilibrium between them so the rights to freedom of religion for Orthodox Christians were kind of secure (if taxes were paid). If you have time to read Ottoman history, not the Turkish propaganda of nowdays, you will see that in reality all of the Empire's subjects were essentially slaves except for the royal family and that in reality many Sultans, viziers etc. were of Hellenic descent. The Byzantine Empire had 32 million people after the plague and they didn't just vanish just because 2 million Ottomans conquered the territories. Modern Turks have almost identical DNA with Greeks as well.
@@sfyrisvasileios7799 All humans have identical DNA. The only difference is the phenotype which is associated with your environment, say black people in africa and white people in antartica. Interesting, the Turks were actually nomadic warlike people who also mixed in with the mongolians and grew into an empire later on. It is a known fact that they are the dominating civilization that represented Islam for almost 1000 years on the world stage (as opposed to arabs). Even contemporarily, the Turkish war of indepenence, the Turks defeated 8 different nations and their belligerents (including the invading greeks from West who actually invaded and settled on to Turkish land) in one determined resistance and basically destroyed them all into retreat. New Zealand, Armenia, RUssia, Greece, French, British, Australia, India, Arabs, sure I am missing more. They are really not to be fucked with
There's still a commemorative plaque in the port of Reykjavík that claims the Ottoman killed more than a third of the island population during this series of raids.
And the guy doing it was a dutch guy working for Ottomans interestingly.
@John Rock what does that have to do with them being raided and a 3rd of the population killed?
@@zhain0 that their ancestors did the same to other countries a few centuries prior I guess
@@pavelp3442 so what? 'the Vikings' were centuries before this incident.
so i will repeat myself, what the does that have to do with them being raided and a 3rd of the population killed? why is that relevant?
@@zhain0 He already answered the question.
The part where the father is torn from his son and begs him, no matter what, not to forsake his faith, is truly heartbreaking.
faith didn't do anything chief
@@jackdoran241 how do you know that?
Agreed, that may have been the worst part to me.
When you realize what probably happened to him you want to throw up
@@jackdoran241 You're not only wrong, you're a bad human being. Grow up.
As a man of Icelandic blood, I demand reparations!
@@abdelmalekmetidji get f*cked by French then
You need to destroy more property than the amount of reparations, maybe you'll get it then one day 😭
I demand you come get your mother from my bedroom
@abdelmalek Metidji You're too poor to pay back anyways.
@@abdelmalekmetidji you gonna let that slide?
The first time I heard about how the Ottoman pirats had taken as much as 1/10 of the Icelandic population as slaves, I was in shock on why these stories had never been thought. God bless this man and his whole family, and thank you for making his and others stories more known.
The ottomans were responding to what was happening to their own subjects under Catholic and British rule.
@@exergyinfibiuseggsanomaly8234 lol then about the thing they did Asia?
fun fact is that, the ottoman pirate who discovered iceland first was a Dutch
They don't want you to know - doesn't suit their agenda.. 👃
Hail Thor.
I myself am from this island, this is widely taught in our schools. Finally someone noticed some of our past history.
Christianity is the worst thing that happened in the nordic countries.
Do you think the pirates could have roamed free around Iceland with icelanders having the pre cristianity mindset?
@@agskytter8977 yes. the pagans were exterminated by far less powerful foes.
@@agskytter8977 what happened is not even Christianity
" taught " in our schools .
@@agskytter8977 Christianity has many virtuous teachings , such as Love thy neighbor as thyself , do unto others as you would have them do unto you ,
etc. ,so I don't think that is the worst to happen to any country , but I see your point . If they were more hostile and vicious , perhaps they would have better defenses .
At roughly the same time. The Ottoman pirates came to my country (Faroe Islands). Two ships with a crew of 500 each. They raided our southernmost island. Took all the women and killed most of the men. Some managed to hide away. When they returned, they could not bury the dead because everything of value, even the shovels, had been stolen.
A danish guy, I do not remember if he had been a crew member on board one of the ships or sent from the danish crown to pay ransom money, said that the pirates intended to go north and raid all our islands, which would have meant the end of my people. But there was a terrible storm and one of the ships was sunk. This made them change their minds and the remaining ship returned south.
I think the sad thing about this is the justification for it was retribution for the Muslims and Jews being exterminated in Spain. Evil upon evil, sadness upon sadness. We take it for granted that the world we live in today is safe, at least in our limited places we live, but forget that war has killed and separated and kidnapped and trafficked millions even today. We can't take these things for granted.
It wasn't justification for anything. They just took what they wanted, it's that simple.
@@مرحبابك-ض1ن Those who are evil will look for any excuse to act on it. Humans can't do something so evil with a clear intent, they need to justify it with an excuse so that they will be able to live with themselves the next morning. In all likelyhood it was probably their greed that motivated them for such an atrocity rather then anger or hatred.
Karma ? The Vikings raided every where killed took slaves and plunder. Now it's thier turn to be raided ,killed and enslaved . On the island of Cebu Philippines there are watch towers lining the coast . Each one in site of the next to warn of muslims coming to raid for slaves .
The island i am on now off the north tip of Cebu main island is named batayan which means "lookout" and there is still an old fort on the north end of this island and a remaining Wall of one in the south end .
I went to the faroe islands once. Beautiful place!
This happened in Ireland as well , a whole town vanished over night
And Cornwall
Ottomans helped Ireland
@Error-nc8yc Yes, they did. Different era than what this video is discussing though.
The Ottoman sultan didn't really control the Barbary (vassal) states. This was more of an industry / business for fortune seekers
The Icelanders enslaved plenty of Irish. And each other.
I’ve never been much of a history buff when it comes to learning about the various slave trades throughout the ages. Me being American of African descent of course I learned about the Atlantic slave trade of the predominantly sub Saharan Africans in school but I was actually an adult when I first heard about the enslavement of the Irish. Decided to do some research on it and I was very surprised by how much I didn’t know when it came to the slave trade of Europeans. I also found out during that research that the Arab slave trade of both black Africans and Europeans was around approximately 2,000 years before Europeans and black Africans themselves would greatly participate in various slave trades as well.
Media makes it look as if slavery was only between white and black people, but slavery was all over the world and almost every country had slaves.
This should be educated more, not just a part of the history, but to show slavery was everywhere. Till today in some arabic countries.. we should learn from it and never let it happen again
"2000 years before Europeans & Africans": come on ! what about Roman Empire then ? well in the antiquity and before, slavery was somehow a universal thing. the ones that could did enslave others and sold them for profit. this is human history. Europeans did it too: Roman Empire did take slaves, using and solding them. be carreful to not fall in the narrative that yes European Transatlantic slavery was horrible but look Arabs did worse etc... you should verify first with historic sources then make your opinion. Wikipêdia is not a historic source btw, even if it can help to start for most basic knowledge.
Most of human history has been about groups enslaved, and enslaving others. Most the time, the slaves were the defeated group and their families after a battle. Even the Aztec and Mayan cultures had slaves from defeated neighboring tribes, though they never had contact with the other continents that practiced slavery. Hard labor is intensive work, and if a person can defeat another, and make them do it for only the cost of water and food to keep them alive, it saves the first person the pain of doing the work. All they had to do was break the will of the other person.
Can you point me to any sources on Irish enslavement in America? And to clarify you're talking about enslavement, not indentured servitude, correct?
When Arabs came to North Africa during the 8th century, in just few years they enslaved more than 1 million North African Berbers (white people, mostly christians since the 1st century, North Africa was the homeland of San Donatio, San Cyprian, San Augustin, Santa Monica, Popes Gelasius 1 and 2 and Milthyade...), they took especially young boys, girls and women to be sold in the slave markets of Damascus and Alexandria. It has been a demographic catastrophy. Arabs have been known for a long time to have practiced the slavery of Blacks peoples, because originally the Arabian peninsula was populated by Blacks, whom the Arabs then Semitic peoples coming from present-day Jordan, colonized the peninsula and dominated the native black populations. With their conquest of Africa, from Egypt, they amplified their practice until they had "fashions" relatively to the morphotypes of Blacks to be possessed according to social castes such as, for example, to possess an East African, thiner, was a sign of his master's wealth employing him as home-servant, etc. This History must be told everywhere, the European slave trade exckusively of Blacks is an Arab heritage! As for slavery without distinction of race or sex, it goes back to the highest antiquity. However, the Vikings who left Scandinavia captured too a large number of slaves, from the banks of the Volga to the western Mediterranean rim via the Atlantic coasts.
There’s something surreal about hearing a man speak who died centuries ago about horrors most will never contemplate.
"Most will never contemplate" X1nj4ng c0ncentration c4mps and n0rth k0rea is still a thing...
@@averdadeeumaso4003 still a small population compared to the rest of the world. So OP saying that most will never contemplate it is true.
Some of the best books are autobiographies of this kind. I read one about a Hellene who was sent to Turkish labour camps and one of a London thief who was sent to penal colonies in Australia. It catholically/universally shatters the "glory of conquering" and the "Shame of the conquered" myths and make you not want to have anything to do with slavery of any kind or type.
God bless the Icelandic Christian martyrs.
many people (and many Christians) in many countries are persecuted... the middle east, China, Africa... millions. But yes, those of us in the developed world will likely never experience such a thing.
It's insane how hard life was like before 1900 (for the most part) any complaints of the modern world are made almost insignificant
We live more comfortably and in better condition than any other time in human history.
@@moshunit96 That is not known, the history of the Americas, Asia and Africa before they were invaded by the Europeans, and the history of Europe beyond 2 to 3000years ago is largely unknown, and mostly speculation
@@kingofdubb2133 even then, there was constant tribal warfare, kidnapping, rape, enslaving, sacrificing etc.
@@moshunit96 In the east, yes slavery is still prevalent. In Asia and Africa stories of entire villages being exterminated is not uncommon. These days it's just in the name of extremism or capitalism.
@@davidnunez8561 Don't agree, history just focuses on the bad things - war, murder, rape etc, same as the news today - when do you ever switch the news on and get something positive? eg there have been relatively recent discoveries of cities in the Indus valley 5000 years old, but no trace of weapons were found
Damn, that part of the father asking the son not to forsake his faith really touched me
Bad advice. The boy would be killed. wouldn't a father want his son to live?
@@carmenpeters728no is Christian’s don’t listen to the devil in order to live like you Muslims, we don’t lie about our faith, what you see as weakness is strength but you’re too corrupted to notice, isa is your savior Muhammad is a con artist
pretty sure he made that up. it was their way to virtue signal
@@righthomosphere7962 it definitely wasn’t made up, you just know very little about real Christianity, you die a martyr before rejecting Christ
@@david-468you mean rejecting Paul? Christ peace be upon him is free of the lies you attribute to him.
You don't even follow a bit of the law that Jesus did which shows the dedication Christians have towards their faith.
Muslims have more claim over Jesus than all of modern Christians.
Russians suffered from this as well. From about 1550's until about 1680s( Peter the Great days) these raids were a menace. Russians protected their southern border with Zaseka lines( just defensive lines, in depth) with Cossacks and reconnaissance units being in the vanguard. It was quite effective. Russia suffered something like 1-2 million sold into slavery, over that period. But it gradually decreased to zero, after southern border of the Muscovite Rus was pushed south. Grim page in our history, full of grim pages. But entire Europe suffered from this as well, a lot more, in many cases. We had a massive Russian Steppe, as a barrier. And many Zaseka lines. And even a special tax - to buy slaves back. Etc. This topic needs to be discussed more, I can't believe this is being ignored. We OWE IT to these poor people, to remember them, to tell their stories. And to remember who was responsible for all this.
Totally agree.
@@julijansidneypicej4701
You wouldn't happen to know a buddy of mine?
Name is Tomaz Milosevic.
He lives in a town along the Slovenia Austrian boarder . Worked in Canada.
Well...the Russians invaded and oppressed half of Central Asia, Siberia, Poland and Ucraine. So, there is no reason to talk about other's wrongdoings, because this is hypocrite.
@@julijansidneypicej4701 I know a girl from Slovenia who was studying economics named Ana, do you know her too?
That explains the word “SLAVery” lmao
Barbary slave trade is also where the ‘britain shall never ever ever be slaves’ line comes from in the national anthem, as whole coastal towns would disappear over night, especially in cornwall
Lol
British shall never ever be slaves because they pay the taxes to Barbary coasts states
Surely the Brits would've known how horrible slavery is after experiencing this, they would not go around to enslave millions afterwards.
@@Sectarian. LOL- Piracy of Spanish colonial plunders ships led to African slave-trading. This and slave-produced sugar were Britain's largest revenue sources which built Liverpool and Bristol. Then the wealth of Britain came from looting India:
India actually had the world's largest economy (over 25% of global GDP) in the early 18th Century prior to British occupation, deindustrialization and looting of India's resources. Research published by Columbia UP in 2018 showed that the British stole about US45 Trillion from India from 1757-1938 (see Prof. Jason Hickel's article online about how modern Britain was built with loot from India). Britain's Industrial Revolution and much Western development was financed by 'loot' (Hindi for plunder) from India. India's world leading textile industry was systematically eliminated by the Brits so that Britain's new industrial cotton industry [copying Indian techniques and styles - e.g. 'Paisley'] could develop as 19th Century historians H.H. Wilson and Friedrich List both noted. This included tariff barriers, making India a monopolized Captive Market for British goods and breaking weavers fingers and even cutting off thumbs of the famed Dhaka Muslin weavers. Governor General Bentinck wrote that the plains of India are bleached with the bones of her weavers. India had produced the best steel in the world (Wootz) as recognized by English experts in the 1790s - and Sheffield copied its methods. French and British colonial observers noted that 18th Century India made cannon and muskets as good as any in Europe but arms production was eliminated. The oldest seaworthy ship in the Royal Navy HMS Trincomalee was built by an Indian Co. in 1817 but British competitors stopped shipbuilding in India. When 19th Century Indian engineers showed that they could design and build locomotives, this was of course suppressed. It was not until the 1914-18 Great War in Europe that India was allowed to develop some industrial capacity - then only due to Britain's emergency needs.
They also killed tens of millions of the poorest in about 3 dozen famines created by Britain stealing India's foodgrains for British profit and Food Security. See also Sullvan and Hickel’s (2022) online AJ English article ‘How British Colonialism Killed 100 million Indians in 40 Years’. Robert Clive returned from Bengal with his 'loot' as the richest non-monarch in Europe and his East India Co. mafia became the super-rich new elite known as 'nobs' (from 'nabobs') whilst up to 1/3 of the population of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa (up to 10 million) died in the 1770 Great Bengal Famine created by their rapacity - as predicted by Richard Becher (a relative of novelist William Thackeray). This led to Europe's first Credit Crunch in 1772 when dozens of banks collapsed in days as Indian loot financing Western development dried up for a while. The EIC started peddling Indian opium to China from 1770 (kidnapping children to work on opium plantations etc.) which brought Britain 1/7 of its export revenues for 140 years.
In 1877 Cornelius Walford showed that there were 30 famines in British-occupied India in just 120 years compared to 17 famines in all of India in the previous 2,000 years. This was because native Hindu and Indianized Muslim rulers acted to prevent and alleviate famines. The British created them with their profiteering, hoarding and exporting for Britain's profit and Food Security [it was Industrial Britain that did not grow enough food to feed itself - until after 1945 - India as a whole always did]. The Disraeli regime even set up Death Camps for victims of the 1877 manmade famine in Madras Province - giving famine victims less starvation rations for hard labour than given in Buchenwald - killing 94% of inmates. 5-7 million died whilst record amounts of Indian grain exports lowered prices in Britain and the West. Famine survivors were coerced into the new slavery of indentured labour in the Caribbean etc. Disraeli organized the biggest feast in human history, the 1877 Delhi Durbar, to celebrate Vicky being named Empress of India whilst 100,000 a week died in South India. In 1901 The Lancet estimated conservatively from the census that 19 million had died of starvation in Western India during the 1890s due to British policies. In 1936 George Orwell wrote in Road to Wigan Pier that 100 million Indians must be forced to the edge of starvation so that the British can live in comfort. As late as 1942-3, Hindu-hating White Supremacist Winston Churchill was responsible for killing millions in Bengal due to Nazi-like Collective Punishment of Bengal and - after British cover-ups were blown by the press in 1943, preventing Food Aid from other countries reaching Bengal, diverting US, Canadian and Australian grain to the UK. As ever, there were surplus food stocks in India as a whole but the Brits ensured they didn't get to Bengal. Even the Nazis allowed Red Cross Food Aid to Greek Famine victims in 1941.
@@Sectarian. When the Brits 'abolished' slavery they paid huge compensation to the slave-owners for their property but no compensation to the slaves. The biggest beneficiaries were the Gladstone family which produced Liberal PM William Gladstone. Supposed Liberal hero Charles Dickens [who supposedly cared for poor Britons] opposed the Abolition of Slavery and after the 1857 Indian Revolt wrote that he would like to go to India to Exterminate the Indian Race!
Of course the British maintained subtle forms of slave-labour even after Abolition primarily with Indentured labour. The survivors of the 1877 Madras Famine (with its Death Camps) were coerced into indentured labour in the Caribbean. Tribal peoples in the North East of India were tricked into the barbaric indentures on Assam Tea Plantations. The so-called 'Slave Laws' in Assam lasting into the 20th Century meant these tea-pickers were worse off than slaves in the Deep South USA as the latter had been valued as property by owners. If they tried to leave plantations before the 5 years were up to complain about brutality, the owners had the right to hunt them down for breaking the contract!
The British after Abolition supposedly liberated African slaves such as the slaves traded by the Arabs from Zanzibar. But, rather than return them to their homes the British forced them onto islands such as Mauritius to serve as cheap labour forces for the British plantation owners! In the 1870s Brits in Queensland kidnapped natives from New Guinea to work as forced labour. In South Africa the British forced the native Africans off 87% of the fertile land with high taxes in order to force them to work as cheap labour in the gold and diamond mines. This later led to the Apartheid Bantustans where the natives were forced to live and try to farm on the 13% of the worst barren land whilst the whites had stolen all the good farmland.
The Barbary Pirates are so rarely thought of now that it seems like just a trivia answer or something you memorize for a test, but really terrorized the region at the time.
I don't know about that! Here in America the Anthem of the US Marines mentions "to the shores of tripoli"! So it was so talked about they even put it in a song! But that's just America
For 100s of years. Millions were taken
I'll tell you what Americans know about the Barbary Pirates: absolutely nothing.
I'm a product of the public schools in the USA. If I even heard "The Barbary Pirates" mentioned during my time in school, it was portrayed as the same thing as the Pirates we all think of (as in the Pirates of the Caribbean or the 'West Indies')
I NEVER heard about any pirates other than Caucasians who used to be military/sailors and went rogue.
The same goes for the Atlantic slave trade and what we were taught. We were taught one thing and no other points of view.
A bit of insight, especially for those of you from other parts of the world.
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@@endokrin7897 the US Marines Hymn literally says "to the shores of Tripoli" referencing the Marines takeover of the Barbary Coast. If you really are American then please show some respect for the Troops and learn their History. It's literally right there don't be an ignorant American, WAKE UP!
@@endokrin7897 I'd say it's more just your own personal ignorance. The American naval forces were incepted to deal with Muslim aggression.
As a moroccan Im glad that light is shed on these issues. We have for too long learned the notion that slavery was only a european thing. The fact of the matter is what the europeans did was not any different from what everyone else did at that time.
This slave trade IS Islamic!
The entire village of Baltimore in Ireland, men, women and children, were taken away and enslaved by Barbary pirates on the 20th June 1631.
It was an English settlement,
@@miracleyang3048 it wasn’t the only time pirates came to Ireland. Also Baltimore was the seat of one of Ireland’s most ancient dynasties well before an English colony was imposed on it. English history books would have people believe there were only savages living on Ireland before the English came instead of the vast kingdoms and Brehon Law that operated there.
They were taken by pirates from my country 🇩🇿, history is gruesome
@donald trumpp a taste of their own medicine lol
@@comradekenobi6908 people like you would probably have resorted to slavery back then.
When people talk of slavery it’s assumed that the traffic was from Africa. The North African corsairs who raided Britain took many thousands with 600 taken in one raid on Looe in Cornwall. The Arabs were by far the worst slave traders. The last major slave market was located in Mecca and was closed after JFK got involved in 1962.
Don't get it twisted, there are still slave markets in Africa. Just Google it.
yeah i am not going to dispute anything you say, but your comment can lead to great confusion.
1. this video is about Ottoman/ Turkish slavers, not Arab slavers.
2. this one is more important. the form of slavery practised by Arabs and Ottomans is far more reminiscent of the type of slavery that the Roman Republic conducted.
the slaves had far more rights, they had laws protecting them, and they had the opportunity to buy their own freedom, also others could buy their freedom.
although yes their slavery was horrible, lets not group this form slavery with the slavery practised by the Americans and Europeans.
The Americans and Europeans practiced far more barbaric forms of slavery. Even in America, slaves had no rights and you could literally kill your slaves and the law wouldn't care.
Contrast this with Ottoman and Arab slaves, you can't kill your slaves, you can't beat the s*** out of them, you have to give them reasonable housing and you have to feed them well.
Whereas with American slavery, you can do whatever you want with your slaves as they are treated less than animals.
@@Hello-ig1px slavery apologists I see…
@@Hello-ig1px Ottoman and Arab slavers were just as barbaric as any other slavers. Most male slaves captured by the Ottoman/Barbary pirates were made into galley slaves, with a very short life expectancy, females were sold as sex slaves to be raped by their master and his friends, or put to work as prostitutes. Most slaves in Ottoman or Arab capture had no chance to purchase freedom, that was a rare event completely dependent on the owner's whims. Slaves were chattel that could be raped, abused, worked to death, sent into battle, inherited, sold and if the owner is powerful enough, killed at whim.
Many Europeans (Balkans) ended up in the ranks of slave armies. The Arabic slavers castrated their male slaves before taking them to market. The Omanis plundered the East coast of Africa for more than a thousand years, yet there is no substantial African communities in Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen or the Gulf States which all consumed millions of sub-Saharan African slaves.
@@Hello-ig1px A fact what is mostly ignored by youtube channels, is that the Barbary trade and piracy was divided under two different periods.
The Hafsid period under the Berbers and the Turkish period under the Ottoman empire. RUclips channels always overlook the Hafsid period while it has intresting stories like the Barbary crusade
The description of Englishmen helping the Ottomans capturing Icelandic people reminds me of Africans helping Europeans capturing other Africans as slaves.
Well the Vikings and English had a long history of fighting and they got raided by the Vikings very often maybe that's why the English helped captured them and put them into slavery
@@Relax-ge2uf same goes for different african factions
If im not mistaken, a lot of the African slaves were a specific part of the moors from the recently fallen spanish caliphate who ran south and were sold by the empires they ran into.
The last of the caliphate had falled in 1492 the exact year columbus discovered America.
Maybe im rambling nonsense but i felt like saying this
Seems odd that the Englishmen knew the island, its landing points and its defences better than the locals did... Were they actually renegade Icelanders?
@@BertPreast I think that the original author (the Icelandic man) would have known the difference between Icelandic people and English people, but still an interesting theory, I know that North East England was called the Danelaw, but I think that the Danelaw existed several centuries before this particular episode took place.
Edit, I mentioned the Danelaw because that was a strong link between Danish vikings in both England and in Danish Icelandic settlements, which is possibly a reason to believe that the Danish were aware of the differences between English people and how they knew who was helping the Pirates land ashore safely.
Hearing this diary makes me appreciate what an immense undertaking it was and how much balls it took for a young United States of America to declare war on the Barbary States and send US Marines to Tripoli. I feel like it would have been a very different world if it weren't for the first and second Barbary Wars.
Absolutely. This is not known about enough. Which is shown by how few upvotes your comment has.
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@@TS-1267 I don't understand your comment. Please expand.
Meanwhile Slaves in US were treated like animals
Oh jog on, USA ruined countries with no shame ( Iraq/Afghanistan/Libya ). They were the main players in the African slave trade along with the British.
Don’t forget the millions of indigenous people killed during the creation of the “ United States “
The US marine anthem mentions "shores of Tripoli" where they dealt with the Barbary pirates in 1803.
"From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli!!!" Yes the US NAVY war formed specifically to deal with the Barbary Pirates. They signed a treaty with the US and a few Years later Britain finished them off for good.
There should be a modern movie about it. Stephen Decatur was a real hero with a tragic end. Many places are named after him in America but no one even remembers who he was.
@@leonrussell262 I’ve seen the original Mameluke sword in the Commandant’s office. Incredible piece of history. Yes Jefferson sent them in because They were enslaving US vessel crew members. For years.
Had an Uncle in the USMC point that out to me. Told me Jefferson deployed the U.S. Navy there because they were sacking U.S. vessels and enslaving crew members.
@@readmedottext I used to clean/stay at these apts on Decatur Ave Seaside NJ …cool and interesting 👍
The saddest thing about this poor man's experience is that nothing has changed. There's still slavery in that part of the world and its not even hidden or shunned.
Saudi Arabia outlawed slavery just around 1975 I believe. Lots of slavery still happening sadly in the world.
yeah we just call it human trafficking now, doesn’t really roll off the tung the same way
@@alextaylor8776 lol 1975
SAdly since the west overthrow Gaddafi slavery has come back to that part of Africa.
You mean the Jewish elitists
I wonder how much longer they lived. As for his wife being returned to her husband - to me - is a miracle in and of itself.
I wonder what she did in turkish possession for ten years...😱
@@ricky-sanchez I am sure it was not pretty.
Terrible
@Skydaddy Myth-Busters Gee, with a name like that I wonder how hopeless you feel.
@roni kol there are no nation called Ottoman today . Its like you call europe Romans.
As an Algerian I say that slavery was and still a terrible thing for humanity , am not proud of any of this terrible practice.
But you shouldn't feel guilty about this, its not your doing and it was the way of the world back then, im sick of being told that I should feel guilty about something I had no part in, the best we can do is learn about the past and share the knowledge so as we can all acknowledge how bad and cruel this is so as to not repeat it
علاش علاش علاش منك سيريو كونا مقودين هكا افتخر بيها شريكي
Not your fault bud
@@yourgrandmotherspimp1280
200 years of colonisation...r y guilty to ?
vikings did far worst
Coastline of Italy is dotted with towers named “saracene” (one of the name for Muslim pirates) that were built to spot and, in same case, defend the local population
Saracene meant Arab not necessarily just Muslim Arabs. Even Christian Arabs were titled Saracene
@@mirandapillsbury7885 people find anything to misinform others due to their hatred! Turkic people are not Arabs, Turkic descend Ottomans occupied Arabic lands as well as Europe and minor Asian parts, but never were Arabs! Dont know why people say Turks in the same sentences as Arabs. Even in the story, it is confused, saying Turkish (Turkish is a citizen of Turkey, set up after fall of Ottoman empire) These people in the story are also not likely Arab, they were north african people confused as Arabs due to skin color similarities.
There were actual other pirates from Albania that were problematic for both europeans and ottomans. there were also the british supported european pirates to stop new found american country tradesmen too.
There were more notorious pirates from morrocan/algiers lands (barbary pirates, barbaries) most of which were to stop european advances and invasions! these were usually erroneously used as ottoman pirates.... they were protecting their own lands and sometimes advancing forward! however there were european pirates too!
@@mirandapillsbury7885 Historical fact, they raided from Russia and Eastern Europe along the European southern cost, up the Atlantic coast, England, Ireland and as this shows, all the way up to Iceland. Many villages in these areas moved inland due to the constant raids.
@@mytester6208 They were all Muslim's.
@@cynthiacook1646 why do u need to emphasize the religion? are they not human?are there no corrupt human beings in christian/jewish/hindu etc religions? i didnt say anything about religion at all. I mentioned there were pirates from all around not one part! also they were labelled turkish in the video arabs in the comments which was far from the truth! They were most likely rogue local people from Ottoman occupied lands! There is big difference, many people purposely providing misleading info to frame the Ottomans as the source of these alleged atrocities... and you are stuck with "Muslims", like many uninformed/trolling people looping the same lies! pity really...
this was so well done, and so well written by the poor man. I cried at the end when her wife was able to return after 10 years of absense. Imagine their feelings upon reuniting. How tragic, horrifying, hopeful and beautiful this story was. Thank you
@Andrew Pope It is as text in this point of video 18:15
what would you tell your new wife?
I too was relieved at learning that he had been reunited with his wife but was left pining for the loss of his children whom he presumably never saw again. Overall it was a very well written but extremely sad account of his travails.
@@redplanet7163 Yes i framed my comment badly, i mean't i cried out of that partial relief that they we're able to unite again. Offcourse it's still a deeply sad story anyway cause the loss of their children
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Sometimes, I'm just glad I wasn't born into a time like this. I can't fathom the pain these people went through.
Some people here in Ukraine had it much worse literally within last couple of months, so I am not sure it's about "time"
@@SummerSong1366 That's true.
Armenians have had for centuries...attacks , rapes, abductions...eventually the genocide
@@SummerSong1366can't say it worse than being a slave
@@leaveme3559 I agree, we only fight because we think becoming slaves is much worse.
as an Icelander I'm glad one of the first foreign conflicts of the USA was wrecking the barbary states. Eventual payback
From the Halls of Montezuma To the Shores of Tripoli
As an Icelander do you feel like people should wreck your country because of what the vikings did?
As a Turk, I am glad that a bunch of Ottoman privateers managed to wreck Iceland to avenge all the things Vikings had done
@@subutaynoyan5372 I suppose you're saying "What goes around, comes around"? I'd say that's fitting considering your people are suffering because of an earthquake currently.
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"Historian Uğur Ümit Üngör noted that during the Russian invasion of Ottoman lands, "many atrocities were carried out against the local Turks and Kurds by the Russian army and Armenian volunteers. General Liakhov gave the order to kill any Turk on sight and destroy any mosque."
"A large part of the local Muslim Turks and Kurds fled west after the Russian invasion of 1914-1918, in Talaat Pasha's Notebook the given number is 702,905 Turks. J. Rummel estimates that 128,000-600,000 Muslim Turks and Kurds were killed by Russian troops and Armenian irregulars; at least 128,000 of them between 1914-1915 according to Turkish statistician Ahmet Emin Yalman."
"After the Greek landing and the following occupation of Western Anatolia during the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922), the Turkish resistance activity was answered with terror against the local Muslims. Killings, rapes, and village burnings took place as the Greek Army advanced."
"During the Greek occupation, Greek troops and local Greeks, Armenian, and Circassian groups committed the Yalova Peninsula Massacres in early 1921 against the local Muslim population. These resulted, according to some sources, in the deaths of c. 300 of the local Muslim populace, as well c. 27 villages. Another source estimates that barely 1,500 Muslims out of 7,000 survived in the environment of Yalova."
"The Greeks advanced all the way to Central Anatolia. After the Turkish attack in 1922 the Greeks retreated and Norman M. Naimark notes that "the Greek retreat was even more devastating for the local population than the occupation". During the retreat, towns and villages were burned as part of a scorched earth policy, accompanied with massacres and rapes. During this war, a part of Western Anatolia was destroyed, large towns such as Manisa, Salihli together with many villages being burned. 3000 houses in Alaşehir. The Inter-Allied commission, consisting of British, French, American and Italian officers found that "there is a systematic plan of destruction of Turkish villages and extinction of the Muslim population." According to Marjorie Housepian, 4000 Muslims were executed in Izmir under Greek occupation."
"After the war, peace talks between Greece and Turkey started with the Lausanne Conference of 1922-1923. At the Conference, the chief negotiator of the Turkish delegation, Ismet Pasha, gave an estimate of 1.5 million Anatolian Turks that had been exiled or died in the area of Greek occupation. Of these, McCarthy estimates that 860,000 fled and 640,000 died; with many, if not most of those who died, being refugees as well. The comparison of census figures shows that 1,246,068 Anatolian Muslims had become refugees or had died. Furthermore, Ismet Pasha shared statistics showing the destruction of 141,874 buildings, and the slaughter or theft of 3,291,335 farm animals in the area of Greek occupation."
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You and History Debunked are almost the only RUclips channels who even mention this aspect of slavery. Thank you!!
You should check out Stefan Molyneux's presentation.
Right here: ruclips.net/video/PFSqz4kvW-U/видео.html
@@12vscience I thought RUclips purged him?! Miss being able to hear actual scholarly discussion of a subject on RUclips...
Its not PC to talk about Muslim slavers, only white slavers. That is why almost nobody knows about the fact that its still going on today in Africa and the middle east.
Just because you have to have history fed to you through a popular RUclips channel doesn’t mean the info isn’t out there
A very interesting story. There is also a Swedish book about captivity in the Barbaresk countries ,,(Morocco) written by a sailor. He was there in captivity at least 10 years
Could you tell me what it's called?
Whats the title?
@@uptheblues1875 "White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's One Million European Slaves" excellent book
@@abdulamaret3212 oh lord
You could fill a library if Africans started writing books on slavery
Not a lot of people know this but Dublin (Ireland) was the biggest city in Europe juring the 10th century as far as slave trading went. The Nordic people raided Scotland and it's islands, England and Ireland taking whole villages old and young. It was only when William the Conqueror arrived in England that it was outlawed.
Quite right. The vikings stole a lot of people for slavery. I'm from Iceland and the nation is 40% Celtic. The Icelandic sagas are full of informations of Irish and Scottish slaves here. But the year 1000 with christinaty slavery was forbidden. In stead there were working people. Sold in auctions to farmers and had almost no right.
And the normans were north men aka vikings
@@AlmaGumundsdottir-gz1ikthe Irish were also in Iceland before the nordic people 😉
The fortress of Alt Clut (modern Dumbarton Rock) was the capital of the brythonic Kingdom of Strathclyde.
Ivar the boneless laid siege to the fortress for four months and starved the population. When the city fell every man woman and child, including the King were sold into slavery.
The Algiers Inn pub in Ireland
Wow your voice is so perfect for material like this! It captures the emotions of fear and dread that those involved must have felt
On the island where my grandmother was born in Greece, there is a fortress at the top of it. It’s still there. Everyone on the island had a little living stall where they had supplies ready to go in case of invading pirates (they could spot them coming, in which case they would immediately take to the fortress and barricade themselves in). This was a daily threat.
Was your grandmother from the island of chios? Because I am from chios and I have heard the same stories of this fortress.
Maniots
Italy is full of those too.
It was the same in Malta and Gozo.
Same in Croatian islands to..Mljet
Ottoman, Arab, and berber (trans-saharan) slave trades, all correlated and lasted 13 centuries I believe, yet it was so neglected and ignored by governments that now in Morocco for example citizens don't even know slavery was only abolished in 1925.
We know about the slavery but we just don't fucking care
And Abolish in Saudi Arabia in 1962
@Niro Pattar funny it comes from an Europeans mouth
@Niro Pattar you are slave by definition
slavery is well preserved honey and not abolished....... The UN is highly western based and most of world countries from Asia to Africa to eastern Europe to south America refuse LGBTQ refuse feminism refuses the banking system refuses the modern slavery ( salve wage ) refuses western subjective vales ,but yet they push it on all of us. using utilitarianism then the west shouldn't be pushing their values on the majority and the majority can take down the west. that's why in political science there's a famous quote " the liberal global order is neither liberal nor global " ( meaning only western based and other countries don't anticipate on it or they will be sanctioned and fought by the west ). also, this is by definition slavery because they tell us what to do and if we refuse, they punish us , starve us or kill us and we have to follow them when they are the minority. so utilitarianism doesn't work and they are enslaving us.
what am trying to say is this system is belt on hypocrisy and when Objective moral people start to realize than they will take action and subjectisim will have no answer when the objective moral people start action and they can't say it's " good or bad ".
even if objective moral people did wrong the subjective people can't prove it's wrong since it's all subjective.
even so atheist can't prove what's good or bad in all topics other than morality. for example, an atheist says to someone you are Bac-kward and that someone says is being Back- ward good or bad ? here they can't really answer. they can't prove being whatever is good or bad. and so on and so on.
what am literally saying now will change the world perception and the moral people will take action. it's inevitable.
one thing else if they don't have the concept of good or bad of any subject other than morality that means it has no value ( worthless ).
for example, asking an atheist is science good or bad ? if he/she did reply with good and bad they can't prove it therefore, it's subjective and has no value at all since they don't have the concept of Good and bad.
therefore, all their " facts" ( which are hypothesis not facts ) are worthless if it has no value ( good and bad ).
they can't detect which is fact and not if they don't hold on any value and even if they did they can't prove it since it's subjective.
We live in a world that ran by subjective people who can't prove their value or the value of anything and can't prove even their subjectivsim and it's value! Yet they have the audacity to tell us what's good or bad and what's valuable and not and what's true and not.
also brain is nothing but an organ according to their world view which means they cannot base anything on it and it's all chemical reactions which delude itself on having meaning when there's non which means all their claims as their existence worthless meaningless and untrue. which means they argue for nothing.....
the history of serbia is full of such stories, the most famous being about the two Andjelkovic brothers,descendants of the Byzantine family of Angels .Both reached high positions in the both empire.One was abducted to the janissaries and the other reached a high position in the court of the Serbian despotate.When Brankovic sent his commissioner to the Turkish camp to negotiate with the Turks on the other side was none other than his brother .And how this man was a poet, he described the event .On that man under the moonlight I saw my mother's eyes.
This story has to be told here in youtube. There is so much that the world doest know about.
@@mclovin7375 😭 yes it should!
oh thank you for sharing this, it made me cry!😭😭😭😭
Angels, y syyc sons, ju tes and their nor(th)man cousins. The 'saxons' as they took to calling themselves were known to be the most savage of all invaders. That IS saying something considering how cruel the others were.
Anyone know the mans name?
Thank you for sharing this. I really wish more people took the time to learn world history & not just isolate to one region, country or time period. It's so important to understand as many of our ancestors stories, cultures, struggles, triumphs, loses, tragedies & issues. Well done with the reading, tone is spot on.
I'm surprised RUclips hasn't demonetized this for teaching this history
@FIGHTFANNERD10 Anti-European?
Your perceived victimhood never ends, does it?
@@GrigRP That’s funny. I was going to say the same about your group who always loves their victim hood too! What a coincidence!
@@occles Haha sure. You're on a video with a million views in a week, yet still crying about "this isn't talked about enough 😢". You're a big victim of this very evil anti European world!
Because Islam is linked to the Arabs, and hence, yes, it is Islamaphobia
Very interesting account. On the other side of the Ottoman Empire Tatar raids to capture people for slave markets from the lands of Muscovy/Russia, Poland-Lithuania - chiefly modern *Ukraine* and the Caucasus region were a nearly constant fact of life. I don't actually know if there are any primary sources about this topic available in English but I can recommend a good study:
_Slave hunting and slave redemption as a business enterprise: The northern Black Sea region in the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries_ by Dariusz Kołodziejczyk.
So it's really not just white people enslaving black or brown people. Brown people in power totally enslaved white people, & of course Africans enslaved each other.
@@Jumpoable of course someone has to turn it into a racial issue🤦🏻♂️
Hungarian children were kidnapped by the turkish, then brought up as soldiers, called janicsár, who would have to fight against their fellow hungarians.
@SaiyanTroll No, they were not white you muppet. Ottomans were not white, nor they were brown. Ottoman Empire was multi ethnic and trying to describe it as some one specific ethnicity is just stupid.
Excellent video. Very moving indeed. Here's one from me on the above-commented Ukraine/Caucasus issue.
ruclips.net/video/LPdOiBT-DzY/видео.html
The church in my father’s village in Suffolk had a collecting box at the entrance for the ransom of locals taken by North African pirates when at sea.
which village if you don't mind me asking?
Soham, St Andrew's church in Norfolk depicts a freed black slave who helped abolish slavery.
And..... Did the religious pay the ransoms or, put the money in their pocket?
🤑
@@burnettis1 The Order of Trinitarian frirs was founded for the ransoming of Christian slaves and did so for centuries! Adelaide. South Australia.
Where is this village in Suffolk?
I firmly believe that the past was horrible. I watch historical documentaries and read history just to appreciate the fact that I am glad to be alive at this moment in time.
Barbary pirates from North African enslaved millions from coastal towns and villages in Europe and England. The song Rule Britannia was written in 1734 to celebrate British navy temporary stopping the pirates. "Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves. Britons never never never shall be slaves".
The irony...
Meanwhile the British slaved their neighbours in Ireland....
And for years now they've been slaves to elitest globalist trash pedos.
“Enslaved millions?” Uhm, yeah, okay buddy. Good luck trying to show that the North African corsairs had anything approaching the kind of shipping capacity aboard their light and agile war galleys and even lighter galliots, that could carry off “millions” of people from coastal Europe. I bet you never paused to consider that, did you? Even in a good year, the corsairs were lucky if they could snatch a few hundred captives, and that’s even before we factor in those who were ransomed or returned in prisoner exchanges. Even the most ambitious-but fact-based-estimate of European captives taken by the North African corsairs over the entire period of their existence doesn’t exceed 50,000. And while we’re at it, let’s not forget the untold numbers of North Africans enslaved by Europeans (including, among others, the pirates of the so-called Knights of Malta), going back to Roman times. The Barbary Corsairs’ counter forays into Europe are small peanuts in comparison.
@@samy7013
Add on top of your 50000, all the internal African killing and slave trading, similar to the vile modern bigotry and savagery witnessed in Rwanda, and by south Africans towards migrants such as Nigerians
(Not so) fun fact: Miguel de Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote (the "first modern novel") was captured by Berber pirates (under Ottoman dominion) on his way back to Spain following the naval campaign of the battle of Lepanto. He was held as a slave for ransom for 5 years until a company of trinitarian friars paid his ransom moments before he was shipped off in a galley to Constantinople.
Yes, it's a fascinating story. Miguel de Cervantes was one tough bugger as well as a great writer!
its istanbul L
@@wiseonwords Tough? Yes, indeed he was tough. He was stabbed three times at the Battle of Lepanto, and lost the use of his left arm as a result of his wounds. The wonder to me is that he didn't die of infection, like so many others.
I was born in a place called Cervantes in Algiers, he lived there I think for sometime. There is a cave in his name too.
@@AXEL-fg5gi cool fact, didn't know there was a town called Cervantes in Algiers.
The attacks of the Barbary pirates cost Spain the depopulation of its coasts for centuries, that is why there are so many inland coastal towns, on top of hills and fortified. This meant that pirate raids were not very successful and forced them to go further and further. In Spain there were religious orders dedicated to raising money to then go to the Barbary lands to buy the freedom of Christian captives. Miguel de Cervantes, the writer of Don Quixote, was one of them, although it was his family who paid his ransom. For today's officialdom it is a taboo to talk about this, you can only talk about the Africans in America, but the truth is that the barbarism was the same or more brutal than that and lasted much longer.
My favorite is the illustrations, I am Icelandic and the imagery is so evocative and well done, I especially liked how when he talked of people being kind and generous to him there was an illustration of a man entering a main hall that has the host reading aloud by candlelight, since candles and lamps were at the time considered almost a luxury and were carefully rationed by households and such a welcome would have been a token of great affection.
I also applaud the illustrations. Whoever created them is a great artist.
Here in Spain the cities facing the Mediterranean such as Valencia, Cartagena, Barcelona, etc. were until the 20th century facing away from the sea with the coast permanently fortified by the constant assaults of Berber pirates. Hence the capture of strategic points on the North African coast to fight them, of which the cities of Ceuta and Melilla are still in Spanish hands today.
@John Rock It ended up in Spanish hands precisely because they were outmatched in the face of the new Ottoman and Moroccan powers.
A lot of these pirates from North Africa were descendants of Moors whose ancestors were forced to flee their homelands in Spain.
Ive always wondered why Barca was facing away from the sea, a reason of concern for the Olympics 1992. Now I know
@@javjav3853 They were not originally from Spain, they were settlers from the Muslim colony of Al-Andalus. It is like saying that the British were expelled from Rhodesia or the Manchus were expelled from China after the Kuomintang revolution.
@@joaocosta3374and the Moors invaded Spain when it was ruled by another foreign people, the Visigoths. Game on my friend.
Thank you for showing us that all people of the world, regardless of skin color or nationality, suffered from the scourge of slavery.
Europeans weren’t considered sub human, which is what their chattel slavery is predicated on. In fact the one who even led the slave raid was a native dutch turned pirate. In addition, Europeans regularly enslaved Arabs, davinci’s mother was one. This isn't even a primary source, but one that was heard from someone that claims to have witnsessed that attack, what's most damning however is the fact that the man that led the slave raid was Jan Jansen van Haarlem, aka Morat Rais. The account writer states that he knew that the captain and his second-mate were Turkish from their headgear - in fact, both men were Dutch - Jan and Mathias were both born in the Netherlands. This entire account is a fabrication by a Lutheran priest written during the Ottoman-European wars.
@@rhetoric5173 europeans are not the cause of all of the world's problems. I can't believe you would turn this around like that and make it seem as though the europeans were the aggressors here when they were obviously the victims, this was a sad and terrible thing
@@rhetoric5173 You should change your name to "anti white" rhetoric.
@@rhetoric5173 lol gotta love the mental gymnastics NPC's have to do for their mental conditioning to justify why every race and religion of people at some point were in the slave trade. The logic apologists make is that yes arabs had the largest slave trade in the world and continue it even to today in somalia but its ok because they like their slaves more!
White leaders and the whites working for their domination of the world do be the cause of all our problems tho (past and present)
As horrific as this account is, the female accounts describe something out of hell. I can't get through them they make me so angry.
Yeah, the most famous one is probably Tyrkja-Gudda, who when freed married the national poet Hallgrímur Pétursson
The Europeans did the same during their wars and with their female slaves.
Can you give me a link?
it hurts when it done to your own people, well millions of black women had to endure that by white europeans
Why? Do you think men and boys aren't r4p3d? Most r4p3s to this day are done to men. Such is the case of US prisons. But m4triarchy looks down on them for being men and sees them as outside of society. I'm sorry but you should look at fleece johnson. hes been released by the way, this is evidence as he confessed it all on camera.
If it’s not already been said some PLEASE make this into a movie. What a story
There's no way. Black people can only be portrayed as victims or heros. White people can only be portrayed as villains right now.
They will never do that because it goes against the narrative
The diversity of the pirates would make it acceptable to the Hollywood woketards!
That would require admitting that White people have also been victims of great evil, and they aren't ready to let the world understand that yet
Mel Gibson should do it, would be 10/10
Makes you think. Even 400 years ago, it was a small world. Amazing he got his wife back. This could easily be a feature film
He didn't. She was ill and he just got to exchange some words with her and then he returned to Iceland.
@@solamano7239 did you read that he got her back ten years later after paying her ransom? Watch the end of the video.
@@jimgoff1170 - No, I didn't. I missed that. Will watch the end again. Thank you.
@@solamano7239 It was written on the right upper corner of my screen, but not spoken.
I had missed it, too.
@@jimgoff1170 Thank you.
Such an incredibly compelling account. This channel is one of the greatest of my RUclips finds. The tales of our forebears help to put our present in its rich context.
this isn't even a primary source, but one that was heard from someone that claims to have witnsessed that attack, what's most damning however is the fact that the man that led the slave raid was Jan Jansen van Haarlem, aka Morat Rais. The account writer states that he knew the captain and his second-mate were Turkish from their headgear - in fact, both men were Dutch - Jan and Mathias were both born in the Netherlands. This entire account is a fabrication by a Lutheran priest written during the Ottoman-European wars.
if it makes you feel any better, people are still being kidnapped and forced in slavery today!
@@rhetoric5173 "This entire account is a fabrication by a Lutheran priest written during the Ottoman-European wars."
Thanks for citing your sources.
Extremely interesting that never gets enough attention. Usually, slavery is just associated with Africans. Slavery in the Ottoman Empire and the Arab world were huge though, and legalized much longer than in the US..
The trans Atlantic slave trade had its roots in the Arab slave trade . The slave traders who brought slaves across the ocean bought them from Arab slavers , who had usually bought the slaves from other black Africans
Slavery is still practiced in the Arab world. They place ads on WhatsApp to sell their servants. Oddly, the Meta guidelines don't seem to be broken by such activity.
"were"? Your hysterical politicised society completely ignore that only muslims keep slaves in our time!
The so called slavery was vastly different and more evil.
Anyone who associates slavery with the African diaspora is that of a little mind.....near every culture has been enslaved, from the Irish to the Chinese to Indigenous of South America and many many many European ethnicities. Slavery, along with violence has existed from the dawn of man. A sad truth.
Humans are cruel...to anything different. This crosses all human flesh and race.
Native American and African American slavery has been exploited by those in power to continuously create borders and divisions between cultures, to continuously crush the spirits of those who are not Caucasian, to diminish autonomy and cultural power...we are weakest when divided or when we don't know how to stand in our own power. ...that's why this type of slavery is spoken across all the seas ...it's far from being the only slavery known,, and hopefully most minds are curious enough to research history to see how slavery and dominance plagues everyone.
Not saying this to diminish the cruelty subjected to African and Indigenous.
Also human trafficking/slavery still exists and preys on our children and young women..no matter their ethnicity.
What a powerful story that should not be forgotten and whose morals of good faith should he praised
They were French, English, German, Dane pirates working under the Ottomons.
berbery muslim pirate is extremely dangerous and violent
I live on the south coast of france in the massif des maures (moutains of the Mauritian) as it was also very common in a certain time to get raided by north African pirates and the population abducted as slaves... Most had a worse faith than this poor man and his family!
Is that why the French got involved in the slave trade in Southeast Asia?
@@yo2trader539 in every civilization sinxe the dawn of time (almost) slavery was sadly a thing! But i hate it when racists try to explain that its all the white mans fault! That is to easy, wrong and racist!
A proud tradition being carried on today.
It is not a competition, and you do not know the fate of most of them.
Isn’t France still being invaded?
In Spain we have a proverb: "no hay moros en la costa", which means "there are no moors on the coast". It is said when somebody notices that there is no danger in a situation that a risk could happen.
In the past, XVI and XVII centuries especially, pirates atacks from north Africa against the mediterranean spanish coast were not rare.
Thank you, I will remember that one. I did not encounter that in all of my years of studying Spanish and even old Spanish literature in college, I am writing that down now.
By the way in a Grateful Dead song they say "when life looks like easy street there is danger at the door" so that's like the same phrase paraphrased, it's in Uncle John's Band, now you know a cool fact too, you know about a great song, and you could translate it into Spanish and say no hay moros en la costa too that would be nice!
Lol we say that in mexico too without knowing what "Moros" even means. Crazy
that's because you killed all of them, women, children, civilians and burned down their villages, duuh
@@richardfreeman724 Indeed, I learnt that phrase when I was a kid and watched the Mexican show: "El Chavo del 8" 😀
The captain of that fleet was Jan Janzoon Van Harlem. He was a Dutch sailor who was taken to Morocco and converted to Islam. His son Anthony Van Harlem immigrated to New York and might have been the first Muslim in North America. Many people from prominent Dutch families in New York are actually related to him.
No first took to Algiers , later he move to Morroco
Islam is evil incarnated
Oh this is why there is a Harlem neighborhood in NYC
Columbus found the RUINS of Mosques in "Cuba" it’s written in the ships crew logs. nope not the first
@@idir_ath_vrahim NYC was originally Dutch and called New Amsterdam. There was a war between the English and the Dutch and the English captured the city and named it after the Duke of York who was later King of England. The city changed sides a couple of times and was also named New Netherland and New Orange before becoming NYC.
The Islamic slave trade/empires are a rarely ever spoken about and when it is, people get upset. I wonder why that is
Wow, what a unique story that shows cruelty isn't associated to any given empire or people. But is in fact inherent to almost all cultures.
While the western states have accepted their history as slave traders, colonizers and invading forces the east has until today not. It even sounds racist to openly discuss their share of this barbarity. One of the most weird conversations I ever had was with a Turk blaming the "west" for genocide the entire indigenous population of America and stealing their temples and cities...then I pointed out that the Turks invaded Anatolia and took some else's cities as well. Istanbul was until the 15th century a very Christian Constantinople as the whole area was a Greek speaking orthodox state. Their great cathedral was stolen and converted to a mosque !! How could even judge the west? They literally obliterated a whole culture deprived them from their ancient cultural inheritance....he got mad. He told me that Constantinople was a promise of their Prophet and thus was always meant to be Muslim. Lol.
And still today countries like those, who never learned to judge their actions and have the perspective of the colonization they actually did have developed a thinking of belonging around their countries and continue to claim territories...which is even more astonishing to think. And all of that under the absolute agreement of many people of the west who always afraid to be called Islamophobists. They literally allow hostile Islamic ideology to grow...
Than you for this video, I much appreciated it.
Just because you don’t speak another languages doesn’t mean it’s not talked about. Why It May consider islamophobia? Your f”Viking governments supporting genocide of my people with their ongoing war. And you here sensitive of your people being criticized for what they did and still doing to the people a round the world for their so call civilization!
cope
Totally true. Everything that you said is true.
@@blockmasterscott lol in Islam everyone is equal in the west white are human everyone is evolving to be human. You practiced apartheid just couple decades ago. Of course you need to be judged so you can see others as human. Hopefully very soon.
@@ashwaqahmed9656 In Islam it's the law, other religions to pay the extra tax to Muslims as indication of their lower position. And that "honor" only for the Abrahamic religions....i could not even imagine what you would have done to those who practice pollytheism, Asian or African beliefs systems, atheists etc.
Apartheid? Do you know how Christians lived and continue to live in Islamic countries? Do you even know how many times the churches of the indigenous Christian Egyptian Copts have been bombed the last year from their peaceful Muslims? Do you even know what's going on with the native Christians of Lebanon or Syria? Lol.....
You may not cared about skin color because your primal obsession was always to make all people Muslims. Islam is the most medieval in logic religion that exist and that haven't changed at all.
Always amuses me hearing about the outrage on the western use of slaves from Africa for a few hundred years compared to the eastern slave markets already established for nearly 2000 yrs before the west arrived.
The main reason is that the west actually teaches its kids in school about some of the dark practices of its passed, unlike the turks that wont even acknowledge that they committed a genocide against the Armenians. The arabs tend to think that they saved everyone with islam but forget how many people they killed/enslaved along the way. I would imagen everyone has done some pretty messed up stuff along the way.
@@xxjr8axx Very true words.I think my country has invaded about 80% of the planet, but what was once history lessons to children has exploded into a indoctrination that their ancestry was evil & they should pay & feel guilty to people who have about as much claim to being oppressed as I have in demanding Italy compensate me for the 420yrs they kept my people as slaves during Romes occupation.
@@hiramabiff2017 Americans killed their own country men to free their slaves, and it left a lasting wound where the North and South are still divided politically to this day. Most Islamic kingdoms (minus a few like Oman or Saudi) never freed their slaves. They were destroyed by outside powers like the French and British. A fact rarely left out of history is that the British Navy ended slavery as a business after they destroyed theTrans atlantic and islamic slave trades when they got a monopoly around Africas waters
@@ProtomanButCallMeBlues How dare you speak the truth and use historical facts😉 Your have people running for their safe bubble zones with talk like that.
@@ProtomanButCallMeBlues British navy ended trans-atlantic slavery. That just meant that trading to non-english men ended.😶
there truly is nothing as terrible
on this planet as humanity’s inhumanity 😔
Yes there is sensationalist 😂
Man is wicked. We kill ourselves and each other, all day long. 😞 It won't be a flood this time...
@@ahronthegreat what's worse? Do tell.
Cry more 😂😂
The famous hym of the US marine core holds the line "from the shore of tripoli" in reference to the US attacking the Barbary states in the late 1700s to early 1800s due to them taking American merchant ship crews as slaves.
The Arab slave trade was truly terrifying in that it spanned several hundred years and plagued Europe, Africa, Asia and even the New world. It was truly a global terror.
The terror continues in another form.
If I'm correct , then I'm pretty sure that is when the US first developed a navy, and for that reason . France actually invaded and colonised North Africa to finally stop it
@@zapre2284 yeah sure thing France invaded half of Africa to stop slavery and not to exploit natural ressources. RUclips comments rewriting history casualy
It never ended. Islamic slave markets still exist today.
@Nachos Andcheese Good, and I ain’t paying shit homeboy
I had no idea the Ottomans made it to Iceland, awful but fascinating
Quite common for Barbary pirates(North African Pirates) to raid the coasts of Southern Europe Europe for slaves and plunder, they also made it to Iceland as it was deemed an easy target(Far away, Sparsely populated, Rather poor) with lots of slaves that would sell well in the markets of the Islamic kingdoms and empires, another area that was often invaded by Islamic slavers was Eastern Europe. Muslim Empires liked making slave armies and especially Ottomans seemed to have had a preference for European slaves in their harems. Of course the Islamic slavetrade did not end there, far from it, African slaves were also taken in even vaster quantities, with the men often being made Eunuchs.
Thing is the Arabic/Islamic slavetrade was much longer lasting and even more vast then the European one, it also lasted much longer and still goes on to this day in some areas, but it is rarely if ever discussed, not even in a link to the transatlantic slavetrade which was in a lot if ways built on the Islamic slavetrade.
It always struck me as odd that countries like Turkey , Morocco and so forth are rarely deemed as colonizers and slavers while a country like the UK is constanly pointed towards when it comes to that.
Well thanks to the experience of European sailors, who also introduced a lot of modern ship models and seafaring methods.
@@denzelsmashsymptom4264 cuz they went there to pillage murder and take slaves
IIRC, at this point the Ottoman Empire owned a large portion of North Africa, I don't know their specific extent at this point, but I know at their maximum extent they owned at least up to eastern Algeria.
@@hurhursjarf4527 Every country has done unspeakable things it is human nature, i believe religion does try to keep us in check until followers of such religion choose the wrong path and therefore the religion in question is seen as evil by foreigners to it. On the other hand you cannot deny that European countries did the most ! Are you going to compare a village pirate raid to an intire continent take over. I have decided to avoid responding to many comments in this section exept this one for they are all stupid and blame other countries and religions for something their ancesstors have done as well sometimes to a bigger extent. People need so little to hate but fail to see the similarities of human cruelty no matter the skin colour. As you may have heard in this video (true or not) it is English men who led these pirates to shore, it only shows that no matter where you come from it is your morality to blame after all. But nonetheless i read people in these comments trying to justify and defend European or American slavery when it was the same everywhere. You have to understand that the Turks and Muslim world back then was at war with the entirity of Europe and back then in war all was possible, Europe did the same ! So stop blaiming a side or another because if Arabs or Muslims caught the slaves Europeans and Christians bought most of them and went to get some more themselves !
Would be interesting to see a video about the slave-trading tribes in Western Africa. Specifically the thriving slave trade before Europeans explored that area and were offered slaves in trade for weapons.
Nice passive voice there. Yes it was the poor dopey eyed naive Europeans who were offered slaves, and definitely weren't the initiators of contact and trade that offered weapons after their failed attempts at raiding for slaves themselves.
@@porkadillo9752 it's kind of racist to asume that african people wouldn't be capable of trade.
@@tarlas83 Can you read? I said that they weren't the ones that INITIATED the trade. As is they weren't the ones that hopped on boats, and sailed to another continent to try and open up new markets. That was all Europeans' doing. When the Portuguese first shows up in Africa in the 15th century they tried to just raid the coast for slaves themselves, and then quickly found out that that wasn't going to work long term. It was only then that they offered to initiate legitimate trade with African states offering weapons in exchange for slaves.
@@ham1672 Jesus Christ you clowns ARE illiterate. What I'm saying is that Europeans were the ones who did the initial offering, not Africans. Africans participated in the trade, but they weren't the ones who made the first offer. OP specifically used language to try and make it sound like it was the Africans who made the first offer, when they weren't. Dude made it sound like Europeans were drug addicts being approached by a drug dealer, which is laughable.
@Geo S
Tbh every society which was at the level of development that the West Africans and most of the world actually was, practised slavery. Especially since there are different forms of slavery and reasons. Especially when people are enslaving their direct neighbours because then a lot of the racist aspects we connect with slavery aren't really a thing. Sadly the sources for this are sparse and often written by outsiders. But still the American society was also built on slave labour as well as hardcore exploitation of minority groups like Irish or chinese workers
He must have suffered major survivors guilt :( He lost his entire family never to know their fates.
I know they are all long dead but I still wish them God Speed. I hope they all found some peace in life before resting in peace ever since.
So grateful for this story but so sad for his experience. Most of us are so fortunate to be far from such grief.
It's just Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians are that unfortunate...
@@lba6859Turkish men were sold to Christian slaver owner
People who live in the modern, developed world ought to read about or listen to things like this, and then reflect on their good fortune at having won life's great lottery. For thousands of years, all over the world, this was the reality of life: brutality and cruelty from one people to another, as the weak were preyed upon by the strong.
I take your point but living in a developed nation doesn't mean we should be automatically be grateful. I, for one, have severe chronic pain. No amount of modern amenities can dull the pain, only medications. If I'd of been born earlier, I'd have to kill myself (frankly, if my meds get cut off, I'll have to anyway). Peoples struggles are still valid and significant, regardless of their prosperity.
@@skullsaintdead Every day, more and more of us become like you, in constant pain with no end in sight, dependant on expensive medications. We once lived in a world of leisure and justice - but this artificial world created in the last few centuries is only temporary. Either WWIII is about to happen, or we will soon be plunged back into the world spoken of above by Darren O. A world where only the ruthless thrive and everyone else suffers. You can see it going in that direction more and more each day. We will once again have to live in a world where education is a privilege for only the few, where magic is revered, where the earth is flat, slaves are the norm, and justice is only for the rich.
Like what Russia is doing to ukraine
@@djizzah No. Putin was left with no alternative after complaining for twenty years about aggressive NATO encroachment on HIS borders.
It's going to happen again and already is occurring when we go to a digitized monetary system. You can never trust the human species they will let you down every time
I find it interesting that he took so much time out of this tragic story to describe a Dwarf couple he just happened to pass upon, and found it worthy of mention.
Maybe because that's something you just don't see everyday. He also talked about the height of many of the people's he came across.
@@nellie7027 The latest dumb "woke" buzzword.
@@suzk1804 these people dont realise how much they are hated lol
@@travisclark7286 or it's a joke?
@T. Meyer Meyer. Anti-white. Meyer... hmmmmmm... MeyerstinskyRothLevyGoldbergSilverstein. Got it. ALWAYS THE SAME NAMES, BoooYSS!!
After Rome and ER-Byzantine fell, can't believe how dangerous is the mediterranean 😢
God damn i still miss her
Fr the Mediterranean was so peaceful during the peak of those empires
Slavery occurred 11,000 years ago during the so-called Neolithic Revolution, when the foundations of agriculture were laid. The slave system evolved massively into large civilizations such as Sumer, Ancient Egypt, Nubia, Ancient China, the Akkadian Empire, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Ancient Greece, India, the Roman Empire, the Arab Caliphate and Sultanate, pre-Columbian civilizations. So until now we have established that slavery has been the basis of society throughout history.And so we come to answer "Why was slavery so important?". The answer is incredibly simple. For economic reasons, beyond any justification of superiority. The cheap work handset defines what some people today call neo-slavery. When you have cheap labor, you have products. When you have products, you have money.
@Aniketh Chakraborty LOL. No, you used castes to do the exact same thing.
Hitler modeled his caste system after indias which he was going to role out across europe on europeans. The more u kno my g
There were never any slaves in India.
@@disturbed0insane there are also no toilets lmaooo
Facts💯
What a lovely written and gripping tale. Modern peoples are very fortunate to have first hand accounts and histories such as these at our hand.
Shouldn't Iceland be asking for reparations from Turkey?
@@catinthehat906No, they souldn't. Asking for reparations is the most stupid thing invented.
yep. it should be a warning to those who want to live in the past.
Barbary pirates were mostly independent they only called for war when needed. think of it like a vassal. Also what i have to do with north african pirates as a Turkish man living in Türkiye? i neither descent from them nor had any relation with them whatsoever lol@@catinthehat906
Slavery was a world trade whether domestic or international and very few can claim clean hands historically. This man, despite all he went through, was one of the lucky ones.
the merchant class (jews) started the trans-atlantic slave trade, which was by far the most brutal slave trade ever. the "slavs" were more like indentured servants. They also hired private mercenary groups like teutonic order and templars to wipe out the last stronghold of pagan countries (lithuana, poland), paid for by the "roman"-catholic church
I believe that the Eskimo and Inuits were completely unaware of the concept of slavery before Russians introduced it. Also there is a huge difference between "The Slave Trade" and "POW Slavery" with the latter being the most common among the indigenous peoples from Sub-Saharan Africa to the Americas. Not Australia though as the Aborigines there had no concept either until the Brits arrived.
@@jacksevert3099 aboriginals practiced cannibalism.
The exceptions do not disprove his statement.
@@alexfagnan7469 I mean it does in the literal sense but agreed not in the figurative sense
White slaves in Africa?! History classes in the US would never dare teach this, thank you for sharing!
Why should American history books teach about what happened in Europe and the Mediterranean?
These pirates were at the North African part of the continent which is Mediterranean and they have nothing to do with sub-saharan african (what you call in the US black ppl or African ppl)
@@sanepillow59 for the sake of knowledge, shit for brains
Muslims justifying this slave trade by saying ottomans were merciful disgusts me. There is no account of them being merciful. Even if they were, slavery is wrong, no matter how it is.
they literally cut the balls off slaves even the romans did not do that.
Which Muslims justified this..? Enslaving free people is haram,
Abu Huraira reported: The
Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said:
وَرَجُلٌ بَاعَ حُرًّا فَأَكَلَ ثَمَنَهُ
“Allah will oppose a man who sells a free person and consumes the price.”
Source: Sahih Bukhari 2114, Grade:
Was the Christian justification of slavery more "merciful"?
You do know that Danes, Swedes, etc also did this for hundreds of years right?
It's a fact of human history, those who were powerful, abused the weak. It's not a race or religion thing. Christians did this too, heck, they even waged holy wars in the same manner as Jihad..
In research that I did in the past, I learned that all black, male slaves taken by muslims, were required to be castrated. This was not true of black slaves taken to countries in the Americans. Seems that after you hey were castrated, they were buried up to their neck in sand for a period of time-to heal!!’
It is important to know that this was written after he returned which was an ordeal itself. Captives who returned were eyed suspiciously by the government and had to prove they had not converted to Islam and held fast to Christian ideals. The church required that the former captives go through a sort of deprogramming 're-education' course in Denmark that lasted about 2 months. This narrative helped persuade the authorities that he was worthy of being allowed to return to Iceland as a free man.
very wise view of isl*m.
well and that was likely with good cause, as you see that the priates used maybe converted englishmen and thus to know of ankerage places and general topography, there was always a fear that converts would at night help to facilitate ottoman landings.
Nowadays Western governments do the exact opposite of this deprogramming. In order to rise to the upper echelons of society, citizens now have to prove they worship the approved tenets of gender fluidity, violent activism, surveillance, innocence of all melanated criminals, Eastern religions, occult practices, abortion, open borders, gun confiscation, medical mandates, segregation, censorship, etc.
It was the same with new Muslims living in Muslim lands. They were viewed with suspicion and expected/forced to practice religious rituals and customs.
Edit: This still exists although not that extreme. The converts are expected to wear a full traditional attire and pray regularly and change their name.
Well this happens where I live don't know about the rest.
In that, they suffered similar fate than the Russians evaded from German prisons under Stalin's regime. Totalitarism has many faces.
I can't imagine the pain this man and many others went through. I have children and it breaks my heart just thinking of them being taken away. This maybe a factual story from history but let's not forget slavery is still present in every country: human trafficking, sex slavery etc. Let's challenge ourselves to ask what we can do to stop this terrible practice.
Legalize and regulate sex work in the USA. Then you can begin to ensure no one under age, and no one against their will is being held captive.
@@counterflow5719 You must live in an utopia...
@@user-fc7yi4ud3m or he must be providing a solution. Address the argument, don't make silly retorts.
kill all humans. no more slavers
What about finding that your ancestors were European slaves like Slavic ?? , I'm a white berber my grandmother told me that we have Slavic origins because of the slavery many white Berbers they are descendants of these poor slaves and they don't know
You know what? If Ubisoft makes an Assasin's Creed game about this guy slaughtering his captors, I'll buy the Yasuke one too. I'll respect the principled stance
Ottomans were big time slavers, for hundreds of years.
The Janissaries (from yeniçeri, meaning 'new soldier' in Turkish) were an elite standing force of infantrymen, first formed by the Ottoman Sultan Murad I around 1380. Legally slaves of the sultan, they served over the centuries as bowmen, crossbowmen and musketeers. This practice was abandoned in 1826 - a long run lasting over 400 years.
During Turkish raids, small boys were especially coveted plunder. Turkish warriors kidnapped young Christian boys and gave them as a gift to the sultan. Sultan converted them into Islam. These boys became Janissaries.
This was known as Devshirme, Ottoman Turkish: دوشیرمه, devşirme; usually translated as "child levy" or "blood tax"
As are the Ashkenazis, also for hundreds of years, with huge effects felt globally. They had the near monopoly on the African American Slave Trade, among many other slaving operations. They even used to enslave the Irish and ship them to the Caribbean to work on the sugar plantations. It seems the Turks and the Ashkenazis are fond of young boys.
Devshirme system doesn’t contain the brutalism and barbarism you speak of. Its totally different than the conventional slavery where the kids are neither kidnapped nor forced. Those kids used to attend several tests to prove their intelligence in order to be part of the devshirme system. Devshirme kids were never taken during raids, since devshirme kids only came from the Ottoman controlled territories. Besides officials were very strict about not taking the only children of families also no overweight etc.
Only a small portion of those kids became soldiers. Majority of those kids were selectively trained and delegated for the most vital positions of the state.
Gave them as a gift? Sultan coverted them to islam? Jannisary corps were more than 120.000 soldiers at one point. Its a millitary recuitment system. Its not based on gifts
@@U87-z2w Devshirme is *NOT* a military recruitment system. Military recruitments were done by Beylerbeyi (Governor) for "Kara Askerleri" (regular infantry), Sipahis (heavy cavalry) and Akinjis (light cavalry).
Janissaries and Kapikulu are the elite soldiers of Sultan which only served as special ops (Guarding Sultan and Pashas) and policemen. Janissaries were no more than 14.000 and had a very similar martial structure with the Roman Pretorian guards. Their primary duty was to serve as policemen in the major Ottoman cities and the border castles.
The 120k number that you refer might be correct after 17th Century in which the Janissary culture was completely broken where they used to record "fake names" (mostly Albanians) to cash some extra bucks which resulted with a terrible disorder in the community. In reality Janissaries never exceeded 30k.
The Janissaries and Kapikulu originate from the Devshirme children. However only a small portion of those children became soldiers. Most of them received vital positions and duties in the bureaucracy depending on their talents and capabilities.
They were not "gifts" to Sultan but "selected kids" from lower class who received incomparable privileges compared to the other children. Most of those families were willing to send their kids to the capital for education since the opportunity only came once in a lifetime.
@@bledacifter5684
My point is people are mixing up harem, the regular slavery and devshirme system all together and then say dumb stuff like janissary were a gift to sultan. As if Ottomans picked up young boys made them go pick up cotton all day, serve Sultan as a sex slave and then were sent off to army to fight in war. They have no idea what they are talking about.
A voice of millions of enslaved. What a dreadful experience, thank you for sharing this.
Bless this man. One thing I find quite fascinating (around 8 minutes in) is how despite all the beatings he was subjected to at the hands of his captors, he still retains a degree of respect and nonchalance towards them.
He doesn’t paint them as purely comically evil, but also records how they generally avoided mistreating the other captives where possible. Whereas I’d imagine that were I in his situation I would have nothing but total contempt for the privateers.
Also noting how many in fact weren’t Turkish corsairs but were Christian Hungarians, Germans and Dutch privateers. Probably what I found most intriguing and unexpected was how he notes that the most brutal amongst them were people who are/were initially European Christian themselves.
kind of reminds me of how the worst perpetrators of atrocities during the Chinese cultural revolution were the children of the victims who had been brainwashed upon their parent's deaths. I guess they feel the most need to prove that they are loyal to their new way of life.
Good point, reality is never pure black and white indeed. I reckon it should also be noted that this raid to Iceland is done by Reis Mourad the Younger (Jan Janszoon), who was a Dutch pirate who converted to Islam.
@@dizvib Yes..the host CLEARLY states that??
@@dizvib My dear Meaghan...yon need that fresh cup of morning coffee...I know I do.
@@johndesalvo7157 I missed that part too, what part was it? How many minutes into the video is this mentioned?
We never get taught about Arab slave trade and Muslim colonization
"muslim colonization☝️🤓" the pirates were turks, blacks, Englishmen Germans, Christians and muslims.
Cry about it
@@frensilkie8769 cry about Gaza some more lol
@@frensilkie8769😂😂 Denial
@@garrymcdonald5456 We didn't displace or genocide anyone in Palestine bud, and we let the jews live their unlike the crusader b*rbarians who basically massacred everything that's not catholic, or the joos who displaced everything non-jooish the moment the UN gave the most of palestine.
You know, it would be great if this stuff was taught in American schools. We barely learn about the countries outside of our continent unless it directly affected the creation or glory of this country.
I'm convinced that a large number of Americans think that slavery was invented by either the Brits, or just Americans as a whole, and that it was only ever used against innocent, kidnapped African families that were just minding their own business. Slavery has been an issue since Mankind had more than one tribe to fight against, and it still exists, unfortunately. We honestly to a major disservice to the struggle of the slave, past and present, by teaching it the way we do - that it's only ever Anglos targeting Africans, rather than teaching that it happened to basically every culture and _why_ it's awful
The Europeans and Americans did not invent slavery, but nobody used slaves in such large numbers, almost industrially.
@@kaktus3856 Even then, Portugal is the one that kicked it off, but hardly any Americans know that much. Granted, I don't think most Americans know that Portugal exists
I'd say that, unfortunately, that was probably inevitable for the time. Higher structure and better technology is great and all, but I'm pretty sure that what lead to exactly that industrious use of human labor. Thank goodness we wrapped back around to having cheaper, more accurate industrious labor for grand scale things that can never suffer (being machinery), or else I'd worry about some psychopathic culture trying to bring slavery back in the open
@@kaktus3856 that’s just not true. Slavery was incredibly ubiquitous in the ancient world and especially so in the Arab/Muslim world
@@kaktus3856 Yeah and they also rode dinosaurs and shot lasers out their eyes at the slaves. See, I can lie too.
@@kaktus3856 lol what. Look at the Romans, Spartans, Ancient Egyptians. All relied on slavery on an industrial scale
Here in modern times we applaud shows and movies that depict these parts of history. I enjoy them very much myself but am quite glad I've never lived it.
There are millions of women and child sex slaves around the world, right now. It's not just history. What they experience is just as horrific as any other time period. Slavery is more profitable than any other criminal activity, at least $30 billion worldwide. You are correct to be quite glad you are not living it.
Yes a very large portion of the population of Iceland itself was created by Viking raiders and Irish slaves.
@@paulh2468 I know modern slavery exists but I was commenting on the context of the video. I don't see shows or movies today showing what happening today. Hmm... wonder why...🤫🤔🤐
@@paulh2468Julie didn't say it was just history. You did.
Fascinating and excellent presentation!
Glory to Greatest Turkey 🇹🇷🇪🇺
@@alexalexandersen5198
Long live Iceland!
@@kayvan671 Iceland rest in ice. GLORY TO TURKISH NATO 🇹🇷🇪🇺💶
@@kayvan671 nobody knows what is Iceland. Siberia?
@@alexalexandersen5198
Troll somewhere else!
This man's faith is inspiring
He praises a cult forced onto his people by, worshipping the same Juws selling, slaughtering his family like cattle.
Wow the brutality of what humans are capable of makes me so grateful for my circumstances I couldn’t imagine my wife and child separated from me I would go berserk
Wish they'd take my wife!
@@nayharries4625 you wouldn't have been able to do anything about it
Imagine the Ukrainians being bombed and looted.
Yes, indeed. Why has human brutality been a part throughout history? Why haven't we learned from history and evolved into a kinder, rational species?
@@drsuperhero ooooooo you’re so noble!!!! Thank you!!! Hahhaha
How horrible it was that he could never see or find out what became of his children, I can't imagine the horror and grief he and his wife had to live with...
Also his son sounds like such a great kid, so brave and steadfast despite just being 11 and torn away from his family to life of slavery in a foreign world. I wonder what became of him. This is probably the saddest video I've seen from this channel, but thank you so much for posting and educating us Voices of the Past
This happens in divorce courts every day in America as Fathers are separated from their children and never reunited as the kids become brainwashed by the Mother and the school system.
I wonder if there is any proof to this story? The ending seems to be convenient with him getting his wife back, and documents can be faked...
@SirSnufflelots whats that
@@dmekkkkkwkkkkkk janissary was an elite soldier in the Turkish and Ottoman armies, trained from childhood to adulthood and very loyal to the ruler, they were mostly used similarly to modern day special forces or "Republican Guards" or Secret Service, bodyguards to the rulers. They formed the first modern professional standing armies in Europe.
They were manned by non muslims and non jews captured in slave raids and sold or from boys given as tribute or tax, then rigorously trained into highly disciplined and fiercely loyal crack troops. Despite being slaves they were paid salaries and received pensions after retirement.
@@ricky-sanchez Okay, Mr. Ricky Sanchez. I wonder what nihilistic tv garbage YOU watch.
Wow what man has endured in this place called Earth.
At the hands of man.
This also happened in India, millions of Hindus were slain, impaled and forced to convert to Islam or pay jiziya or even sold as slaves in Iran, Turkey, Arab states from far-off Afghanistan( The Hindu Kush). Famines and droughts were orchestrated like the British and money was given to poor Hindu-Buddhists as incentives to convert, similar to the British and Christian ricebags.
We had our own problems, but we never see Muslims here reading their real history or having any sort of remorse for their actions here( its all rosy for them), they think a handful of Sufis were enough to convert whole India to Islam and us Hindu-Buddhists as Africans. 80000 to 100000 temples were destroyed during the Mughal rule alone, as an estimate. If European Christians were responsible for massacres, then why can't the the middle-east be held accountable for their crimes against the Indians and Africans? Most African descendants in India were due to the so-called Slave trade, managed by Arabs, Persians and Turks, as a testimonial.
His faith even while going through so many tribulations humbles me
Well if his faith is Christian the Bible suggests slavery is ok, just giving a fact go read the book
@@onlyme219I do read the bible.. you should too
Haha faith can move mountains - French proverb
@@onlyme219You should read the Bible, you might learn something
@@thegreatsmoocher8424 Yeah, maybe I'd find out where Adam and Eves sons got their wives from. Do you know? My guess is it incest?
I like how he just randomly describes the dwarfs he encountered.
he may have seen maybe pygmes? or people with actual dawrfism.
I know im laughing so hard right now
@@patriciusvunkempen102 He meant dwarfism, makes sense it'd be more common in a big city like that. Believe it or not, in the capital Konstantinniye, they had 'court dwarves'. As I'm writing this, I see a bunch of other European courts had them as well. They seem to have done the same service as court jesters, unfortunately, being targets of amusement for their condition. They also would stand by rulers to make the rulers seem more imposing. Weird times.
@Chris Walker Dwarfs aren't something you see every day today. LMFAO!
@@zonkerharris1144 Can no one be amused? Must it conform to your liking to be permitted? All you do is leave unproductive and mean comments. Get a life.
These stories are read back so well it's like I'm actually reading these as well as being there in the moment. These poor unfortunate people.
The fact he kept his faith after all that is astonishing, beautiful, but also scary, I don't know if I could be tested like that, truly many of these people are saints now
People were generally so much tougher then than now; and of course faith was a real thing then, that enabled people to endure all sorts of pain and suffering.
Read the book of job
@@blowingfree6928 yeah and they had an other "relationship" with death and pain then ppl have now. Ofc noone wanted to die then either, but it wasnt that tragic and scary as it is now. The reason for that is that they came across death and pain way more often then we do now : wrong going births where a lot of women and kids died, cruel rulers who had no problem with killing and punishing ppl, raidings as it is described in this video, or lethal cancer and starvation. It was just more "normal".
Oh it is just his eloquence giving depth to the experience, truth is he was handled much better than the British, French and Prussians handled black enslaved people, i mean lad was eating bread warm from the oven 😂.
@@TheHolladiewaldfeee First one is true but second half not..
More children die today mainly from leglisation of bad behavior from you know.. the ones giviing birth, the ones you know.. starting with w..
In Italy there's this popular proverb that says "Mamma li turchi!" (Mom the turks!) and it's still used, even in a easy way, to indicate a scourge, and something dangerous.
This because the coasts of Italy were constantly attacked by saracens in the middle ages, and by barbary corsairs and turkish ottomans in the modern era. For more than 1000 years (720 to 1800) hundreds of thousands of people were kidnapped and sold as slaves in North Africa and Turkey. The coasts of Italy are still covered by watch towers, called "torri saracene" (saracen's towers) and little forts builded with the purpose of warning the people for these attacks and sheltering them.
This history is known vaguely by most people only because the trauma for these attacks was deeply dig in the "popular culture".
But actually we know very little about this stuff, and above all, we don't know the magnitude and the massive numbers of slaves that those raids made.
Even i, as a history lover, find out very recently about the massive scale of those attacks, and how real and terrible in those time was the cry "Mamma li turchi!". And this was the same on the coasts of all Europe, and even worse in the Balcans and on the Ukrainian-Russian-Polish frontiers, were millions were enslaved by turks and tatars.
Schools completely avoid the subject (but obviously talk A LOT about the evil crusaders and the North atlantic slave trade).
I wonder why....
I like the story of Vlad the impaler
Since you like history , just look also for the raids of europeens on the north africain coast for centuries and look also for what did the spanish to the andalusians muslims and jewish people and how they followed them to the coast of North Africa, the majority of the barbaric pirates were europeens themselves ! Search well you will discover a lot of controversies
Every body was imperialist in those times LOL, Ottomans helped to Ireland in the patato crisis, saved jews from spanish, saved muslims from massacker Christian empires. We all know what Europeans did in Africa and America. I don't support ottoman Slave trade but you said like they were the only ones who were bad. Also in this video its about iceland. Vikings raped women and killed children, 10% of the England has Scandinavian DNA. Nobody is innocent
@DriftZ TwoSeven worse was definetly Belgians, I am white and turkish. Spanish, Belgians, and British is 10 times worse than what is happening in here.
@@mariamd3368 Wow, you just listed a partial fact after the other.
The barbaric pirates were not in majority europeans, lmao. This assumption, alone discarded your entire argument. There were of course, europeans between them. Mostly converts who were once slaves and converted to islam to leave the roam on the galleys. But saying that they were the majority? Ahaha!
Also, of course there were christians raid, but sorry, the magnitude, the frequency and above all, the numbers of slaves taken are just incomparable. The barbary raids were endemic. The christian raids were occasional.
Malta Knights and other little italian corsairs were the only ones engaged in such affairs, and they had few ship. So they just couldn't take a lot of captives on boards. Meanwhile ten of thousands of people were kidnapped by barbaries and ottomans every year. The enslaved population on the barbary states was huge. Those states almost only worked thanks to that workforce.
Only thing you're right is about the spanish treatment of moors and jews. Awful, of course. But that is a widely know history. We studied it back in high school.
My point is that for some (VERY MISTERIOUS) reason, right now they only talk about the crimes of euros. And act like the other people were just saints, that never hurted a fly, and were eventually attacked and conquered by the evil euros.
Euros only won the wars of the last two hundred years.
You can see nowadays, in every part of the world, how the winners treat the losers, especially if they are from another ethnic/religious background. But for some reason, it's worse when a euros do it. And it's cultural and somehow excusable when the others do it.
To me, this is peak hypocrisy.
It's even more terrifying to know that there are more slaves in the world today, than back then (est. 30-40 million at least). How do such people live with themselves?
Where are these slaves you mention?
@@TwoBassholesandaKaren7107 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_21st_century#Statistics
@@apollionsacrezleonardmauritanians are not arab
They get money for the slave labor when you buy the products
Here the US slavery is illegal...except in our prison system. Some of the same families that gained their wealth in the southern states days of slave labor today are enriched by slave labor in our penitentiaries.
Fun fact : the most famous European slave in Morocco was a dutchman called van harlem he later became a General in the moroccan navy and later the governor of the city of al walidiya his son anthony brought a land in new York what is called today harlem
Moroccan navy ? You mean ottoman navy 💀 , they worked for the Ottomans
morocco was never under ottoman rule @@Error-nc8yc
Morocco was never under ottoman rule @@Error-nc8yc
That's some soft-ass "slavery"
Nope Morocco wasn't a part of the Ottoman Empire and the pirates in Morocco were independants , they even create their own republic called Sale (Morocco have never worked for the Ottomans)@@Error-nc8yc