As a honky white man of European descent, I find this to be particularly interesting:

A new book says up to a million Europeans were abducted and enslaved by North African raiders in the 16th and 17th centuries -- a number that is far higher than previously known, reports the Guardian.

In a new book, Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500-1800, historian Robert Davis says hundreds of thousands of people were snatched from coastal towns throughout the Mediterranean and as far north as England.

The white Christians were seized every year to work as galley slaves, labourers and concubines for Muslims in what is today Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Libya, the book claims.