Yes indeed. The Barbary Pirates kept attacking American ships, so Washington decided to take them out at the source in their homelands.
Also, the Barbary Coast slave trade of millions of white slaves into Africa by people of color is a thing leftists like to pretend never happened.
Yeah, it was millions of Europeans enslaved, over a couple of hundred years. Until the US freed the slaves and France took control of the region.
They raided all the way up to Iceland.
There were millions more enslaved in the Crimean-Ottoman trade. That was bigger than the African-American trade, until close to the end of the latter.
The trade of European women to the Middle East and Turkey, went on for nearly a century, after slavery was ended in the USA.
It's weird how common becoming a Muslim slave was, and for how long, in Europe, but it never really comes up in any histories or novels. Nobody knows about it.
