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Ongoing. Imazighen! Beauty and Artisanship in Berber Life. The Peabody Museum. Open daily 9 a.m.-5 p.m. $7.50; $6 students and seniors; free with Harvard ID. Free Sun. 9 a.m.-noon...
Ongoing. Imazighen! Beauty and Artisanship in Berber Life. The Peabody Museum. Open daily 9 a.m.-5 p.m. $7.50; $6 students and seniors; free with Harvard ID. Free Sun. 9 a.m.-noon...
Ongoing. Imazighen! Beauty and Artisanship in Berber Life. The Peabody Museum. Open daily 9 a.m.-5 p.m. $7.50; $6 students and seniors; free with Harvard ID. Free Sun. 9 a.m.-noon...
Ongoing. “Imazighen! Beauty and Artisanship in Berber Life.” The Peabody Museum. Open daily 9 A.M.-5 P.M. $7.50; $6 students and seniors; free with Harvard ID. Free Sun. 9 A.M.-noon...
...used as slaves. The historian Robert Davis, in his book Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast and Italy, 1500-1800, estimates that as many as 1.25 million Europeans and Americans were enslaved. The Barbary raiders--so called because they were partly of Berber origin--struck as far north as England and Ireland. It appears, for example, that almost every inhabitant of the Irish village of Baltimore was carried off in 1631. Samuel Pepys and Daniel Defoe both mention the frightening trade in their writings; at that time, pamphlets and speeches by survivors and escaped...