Comments on: Barbary pirates played an important part in the burgeoning slave trade until it ended in the 1800s. They scoured nearby seaside villages in Italy, Spain, and Portugal looking for human cargo. They particularly liked capturing Christians for sale in the Islamic slave markets of Algeria and Morocco. They prized young white women with fair skin, light hair, and blue eyes. They were considered trophy catches because they fetched high prices at the Islamic slave markets, but the Barbary pirates were intimately involved in the black African slave trade as well. It might do a lot of good if young African Americans were taught in school that their ancestors who were enslaved in the United States were probably captured in Africa by Islamic slave traders most of whom were Arabs, taken to Islamic slave markets that were run by Arabs, and sold to European and American slave buyers.

Comments on: Barbary pirates played an important part in the burgeoning slave trade until it ended in the 1800s. They scoured nearby seaside villages in Italy, Spain, and Portugal looking for human cargo. They particularly liked capturing Christians for sale in the Islamic slave markets of Algeria and Morocco. They prized young white women with fair skin, light hair, and blue eyes. They were considered trophy catches because they fetched high prices at the Islamic slave markets, but the Barbary pirates were intimately involved in the black African slave trade as well. It might do a lot of good if young African Americans were taught in school that their ancestors who were enslaved in the United States were probably captured in Africa by Islamic slave traders most of whom were Arabs, taken to Islamic slave markets that were run by Arabs, and sold to European and American slave buyers. http://www.snydertalk.com/?p=1866 "He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty." Psalm 91:1 Sat, 28 Aug 2010 21:48:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1