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For over 300 years, Barbary pirates enslaved 1 million Europeans and Americans. They raided ships, burned villages, and sold captives into brutal servitude. Until 8 U.S. Marines took on a pirate empire and ended the white slave trade forever. Here's the untold story:

For over 300 years, Barbary pirates enslaved 1 million Europeans and Americans. They raided ships, burned villages, and sold captives into brutal servitude. Until 8 U.S. Marines took on a pirate empire and ended the white slave trade forever. Here's the untold story: