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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (122874)	6/2/2010 8:06:46 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

According to Robert Davis between 1 million and 1.25 million Europeans were captured by Barbary pirates and sold as slaves in North Africa and Ottoman Empire between the 16th and 19th centuries.[147] The coastal villages and towns of Italy, Portugal, Spain and Mediterranean islands were frequently attacked by them and long stretches of the Italian, Portuguese and Spanish coasts were almost completely abandoned by their inhabitants; after 1600 Barbary pirates occasionally entered the Atlantic and struck as far north as Iceland.[148]

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (122874)	6/2/2010 8:07:36 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Slavery in American colonial law * 1642: Massachusetts becomes the first colony to legalize slavery. * 1650: Connecticut legalizes slavery. * 1661: Virginia officially recognizes slavery by statute. * 1662: A Virginia statute declares that children born would have the same status as their mother. * 1663: Maryland legalizes slavery. * 1664: Slavery is legalized in New York and New Jersey.[199]