The Diabolical History Of The Barbary Slave Trade
From the halls of Montezuma, to the shores of are the beginning lines from the United States Marine Corps Hymn, and the Tripoli that s mentioned is the largest city in today s Libya. The hymn was written sometime after 1867, and these lines commemorate two of the Marine Corps most famous battles the halls of Montezuma referring to the MexicanAmerican War of 184648, and the shores of Tripoli refers to the battles the Marine Corps, along with the US Navy, fought with the infamous Barbary Pirates who terrorized the coast of North Africa, the Mediterranean Sea and indeed, a large part of Europe for at three centuries. Slavery had existed in the Mediterranean Basin since before the time of Rome. During the Roman expansion, people from all corners of the empire were enslaved: Franks, Germans, Slavs, Greeks, various people from the Balkans, Africans traded to Rome by Egypt, Jews from Israel and more. Some of the richest people in Rome and the Gothic and Arab empires which f
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