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According to the American scholar Robert C. Davis, between 1530 and 1780 the total number of white Europeans captured by Muslim Barbary corsairs, based on customs records, is estimated to be around 1,250,000 people, from all backgrounds. Maybe it’s time young Westerners were taught this in school, instead of being led to believe that only white people ever practiced slavery. And perhaps it should also be pointed out that it was white societies that first put an end to this practice, even though it still exists today in some African countries.