Talk:Slavery on the Barbary Coast

Rewrite lede
I feel the lede is problematic as it does not really deal with the topic: Slavery on the Barbary Coast. Leutha (talk) 19:38, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

"Unfree labor?
To refer to the slavery as unfree labor is problematic. It may be referring to the fact that slaves would sometimes be bought free again, but that does not negate the fact that it was still slavery. It may also be referring to the male slaves forced to do construction work and similar work, but that is a male-centric perspective: there were women taken as slaves who were sexually abused as concubines, and to refer to that as unfree labor is offensive. I will therefore rephrase that.--Aciram (talk) 00:35, 17 February 2024 (UTC)