Muslimisch-christlicher Sklavenhandel im Mittelmeerraum 1500-1800

The Slaver’s Bay

The funny things is like 30% of the muslim corsairs were probally Europeans 

For example here is a turkish record of the corsairs ethnicity that I translated into English.

 Ottoman privateers (reis/raïs) in Algiers in 1581. Out of 35 reis we have: – 10 Turks (= Muslim, not ethnicity) – 3 sons of renegades 22 renegades: – 6 Genoese – 3 Rum – 2 Spaniards – 2 Albanians – 2 Venetians – 1 Hungarian, French, Corsican, Neapolitan, Sicilian, Calabrian, Jew.

Many of the french and English corsairs would later move to the carribeans in order to raid the Spanish settlements and later would move to the reed sea to raid Muslim merchants of India.

Do Crimean Khanate slave raids next

„trade“

The title is wrong for the actual graphic. It only shows the Christian slaves taken by Barbary raids, it doesn’t include from land battles, occupations, or even from other places like miaphysites from Africa, orthodox from Circassia, south Russia, the PLC, the Balkans in general, Hungary, Italians in Crimea.

In the end, it compares an entire continents supply from all sources, to a single source of a huge empire, which at the minimum is a very dumb, and borderline misleading comparison.

I feel like it’s a bit odd for there to be a post about this basically every week.

Studying the Mediterranean Slave Trade is important for understanding the histories of Spain, Italy, and Russia (which for some reason is excluded despite the Crimean Khanate being perhaps the most prolific slave traders in Europe during this time period).

However, posting about it this much with little to no context smells of a political agenda that goes beyond maps and graphs.

and it was not small scale

a known number is from the release of all christian slaves in the 19th century (after pressure by France on arabian leaders)

2 Million christian slaves where released, only in that event!

so the scale of the slave trade was about million and millions of people

I asked ClaudeAI about some background:

**Trans-Mediterranean Slave Trade**

The majority of slaves traded across the Mediterranean region were predominantly of European origin from the 7th to the 15th centuries

The Ottoman Empire sourced large numbers of slaves from the Balkans and Eastern Europe via the Crimean slave trade, with Janissaries being primarily composed of enslaved Europeans

In Constantinople alone, around one fifth of the population consisted of slaves in 1609

**The Role of Jewish Merchants**

Jewish merchants played a notable intermediary role in the trans-Mediterranean trade:

Jews were legally able to sell Christian slaves to Muslim buyers and Muslim slaves to Christian buyers, as well as pagan slaves to both, since religious law prohibited Christians from enslaving Christians and Muslims from enslaving Muslims

Additionally, since both Christians and Muslims were prohibited from performing castrations, **Jewish traders filled the demand for eunuchs in the Muslim world, with Prague serving as a major centre for the castration of Slavic captives**

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So it was Christians, Muslims AND Jews who worked hand in hand to enslave people. Non of them is unguilty!

edit: wtf? voting me down for a Claude research?