>>1158463
The majority were like the Scandinavians who went a viking in earlier times, young men from a clannish society who during the farming season took odd-jobs in agriculture and transport, and in the off-season signed up as merchant marines, some of whom engaged in piratical activities.

Funding them was a merchant class who made their living by trade and insurance, and who could make bank by diverting rival shipping into their ports without the expense of having to compete in a market or pay for most of the transport.

Buying from them was an upper and upper-middle urban class with high demand for luxuries, finished goods, and manpower, all of which came at a premium in North Africa due to low population, lack of industry, and an unstable political situation between the city and the hinterland. It's here that the demand for captives and slaves arises as domestic servants, manual laborers, and sources of lucrative ransoms.

>>1158679
Not to mention that the Ottoman Empire actively encouraged this.

>>1158712
Not directly, since the word is just something that doesn't really exist when discussing early modern North Africa. Like the French with their pirates based out of Marseilles, or the Florentines and their sailors based in Leghorn, or the Hapsburgs and their relationship with the Uskoks, and the Papacy and the Knights of Rhodes/Malta, it's not something that the crowns of Europe and Africa had official say over, but were regularly petitioned to alleviate or reduce in some vague way like banning them from official harbors or opening up courts for disputes.

The Porte was more directly involved with the Genoan and Greek Black Sea traders in order to fill seats for their navy.

>>1158463
>Why the "ooga booga where all deh white wimmin at" ?

Because stupid amero-negros think that moors or Berbers were black. They weren't if they weren't tanned by the sun them they'd be fairly pale. It was muslim captains raiding Christian nations for slaves, some of these captains were actually former Christians from France, Spain, Italy, etc. The crew was a diverse hodge podge of people because impressment.

>>1158463

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