Mediterranean_Privateer Ottoman_Algeria

purchase of christian slaves french friars (religieux de la mercy de france) in algiers in 1662.

despite end of formal hostilities spain in 1580, attacks on christian , catholic shipping, slavery captured, became prevalent in algiers, , main industry , source of revenues of regency.

in 17th century, algiers became, along other north african ports such tunis, 1 of bases anglo-turkish piracy. there many 8,000 renegades in city in 1634. (renegades former christians, fleeing law, voluntarily moved muslim territory , converted islam.) hayreddin barbarossa credited tearing down peñón of algiers , using stone build inner harbor.

a contemporary letter states:

infinity of goods, merchandise jewels , treasure taken our english pirates daily christians , carried allarach [ larache, in morocco], algire , tunis great enriching of mores , turks , impoverishing of christians

privateer , slavery of christians originating algiers major problem throughout centuries, leading regular punitive expeditions european powers. spain (1567, 1775, 1783), denmark (1770), france (1661, 1665, 1682, 1683, 1688), england (1622, 1655, 1672), led naval bombardments against algiers. abraham duquesne fought barbary pirates in 1681 , bombarded algiers between 1682 , 1683, christian captives.