[The Australian Panther]

The propagated take on Slavery today is that it only affected Africans who were taken to the Americas - which of course it did.
The full story is very different.
At least a million European Slaves were held in Northern Africa between approximately 1530 and 1780. Ships used to raid the coasts of Western Britain and capture the population of entire villages, particularly in Ireland.
Here are two accounts.
White Slaves, African Masters: An Anthology of American Barbary Captivity Narratives
https://go.gale.com/ps/anonymous?id=GALE%7CA77074825&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=00128163&p=AONE&sw=w
[ Over the course of four centuries, the Atlantic slave trade was much larger – about 10 to 12 million black Africans were brought to the Americas. But from 1500 to 1650, when trans-Atlantic slaving was still in its infancy, more white Christian slaves were probably taken to Barbary than black African slaves to the Americas, according to Davis.]
https://news.osu.edu/when-europeans-were-slaves--research-suggests-white-slavery-was-much-more-common-than-previously-believed/

Well that was then, this is now. Doesn't happen any more, right?
Nope!
Slavery Today
https://www.endslaverynow.org/learn/slavery-today
and
https://www.stopthetraffik.org/about-human-trafficking/the-scale-of-human-trafficking/

Sorry, but this subject pushes my buttons.

Link to the book: Crime and Punishment 69