The Barbary pirates of North Africa attacked the coastal northern Mediterranean launching attacks against Britain, France, Italy and Sicily. In their feverish search for slaves a few pirates even went ...

This is the full text of the chain email received by PolitiFact about the Barbary pirates and Islam ... â collectively referred to as the Barbary Coast and presented a dangerous and unprovoked ...

The Barbary ... Coast" at the time — a name derived from the Berber people who lived there; and its pirates were a major threat for more than 200 years, preying on ships and conducting slave ...

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Usually referred to as Turks, these marauders were in the white slavery business ... It is thought to refer to Barbary pirates who operated off the Cornish coast at this time.