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...Barbary States of North Africa--Algiers, Tunis, Morocco and Tripoli (today's Libya)--had for centuries sustained themselves by preying on the maritime commerce of others. Income was raised by direct theft, the extortion of bribes or "protection" and the capture of crews and passengers to be 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...
Over the next four years, in what Jefferson laconically described as a "cruise," the new American Navy bombarded the harbors of Algiers, Morocco and Tunisor threatened them with bombardment--until the states gradually agreed to cease cooperating with Karamanli. The Tripoli government, however, remained defiant and even succeeded in boarding and capturing the Philadelphia in 1803. That led directly to an episode that, as Henry Adams records in his history of the two Jefferson administrations, used to be known to every American schoolboy. In February 1804, Captain Stephen Decatur Jr. sailed straight into Tripoli harbor and set on fire...
...also wears a braided leather bracelet and beaded necklace from Morocco, presents from a friend there who Pierce says liked him and respected him even though he was a devout Muslim and Pierce was in the process of questioning religion...
...Pierce, they will be a lasting symbol of the profound impact his Morocco trip had on the way he views himself and his Harvard experience...
...adventures are likely far from over, as he travels to Casablanca, Morocco on Aug. 16 to teach at the Casablanca American School for at least the next 10 months. Bar Am’s tentative future plan is to return to the United States for graduate school, likely in nursing...