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2023-05-10 18:31:01 UTC - HELPFUL
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Between the 1600s and 1900s Barbary pirates captured and enslaved up to 1.25 million Europeans. According to the 1860 census tables there were 3,952,838 slaves in the United States. https://www.theguardian.com/guardianweekly/story/0,12674,1171347,00.html https://history.osu.edu/publications/christian-slaves-muslim-masters-white-slavery-mediterranean-barbary-coast-and-italy https://www.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/placesinhistory/archive/2011/20110318_slavery.html
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