When African slave traders raided Britain and carried off the inhabitants at will

We are all aware of the transatlantic slave trade, in which Europeans took Africans as slaves to America and the Caribbean. Few people though realise that a few years earlier, African slavers had taken as many English and Irish people as they wished and transported them as slaves to Africa. Brown, Michael J. (1970), Itinerant Ambassador: The Life of Sir Thomas Roe, Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. Dalrymple, William (2004), White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenthcentury India, London: Harper Perennial. Hreinsson, Karl Smari and Nichols, Adam (trans.) (2016), The Travels of Reverend Olafur Egilsson (Reisubok Sera Olafs Egilssonar): The Story of the Barbary corsair raid on Iceland in 1627, Washington: Catholic University of America Press. Milton, Giles (2005), White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa’s One Million European Slaves, London: John Murray; O Domhnaill, Ronan Gearoid (2015), Fado Fado: More Tales of LesserKnown Irish H