The fishermen and coastal dwellers of 17th-century Britain lived in terror of being kidnapped by pirates and sold into slavery in North Africa. Hundreds of thousands across Europe met wretched deaths on the Barbary Coast in this way. Professor Robert Davis investigates
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I’m not sure that’s a ‘perspective’, it’s just a different example of historic slavery that differs from the one that immediately springs to British minds.
The important point is that slavery, in all its forms, is abhorrent. Whether it is being ‘done to us’ or we are ‘doing it to others’ does not change that fact.
Historical examples should be remembered without celebration. Awareness should be raised about present-day versions of slavery, of which there are many, and structures put in place to both free those who find themselves enslaved and to resolve the root causes that lead them there.