Here’s an interesting thing that comes to you from one of my colleagues\u00a0who mentioned an event that occurred a couple of hundred years ago.<\/p>\n
In 1631 almost all of the inhabitants of Baltimore, Ireland, were captured by African pirates.<\/p>\n
The captives were taken back to Africa and sold in to slavery.<\/p>\n
Apparently one of my colleagues is related to a survivor.<\/p>\n
In the years between 1500 and 1800 the African slavers regularly raided towns and villages from Sicily to Ireland (Devon and Cornwall being particularly regular targets).<\/p>\n
How many people were abducted isn’t known but one academic estimates that between 1,000,000 to 1,250,000 might have been taken.<\/p>\n
What a story lies here waiting to be unpicked!<\/p>\n
If I were a historical novelist I’d be very interested in this; but I’m not, I’m just inquisitive.<\/p>\n
B.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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