Author: Francis Brooks
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781684546121
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
It was during the 1600s that Barbary corsairs-pirates from the Barbary Coast of North Africa (today Algeria, Libya and Morocco)-were at their most active and terrible. With the full support of the Moorish rulers of North Africa, these Muslim slavers raided southern Europe, the Atlantic European coast, Britain and Ireland almost at will. There