Comments by "Voryn Rosethorn" (@vorynrosethorn903) on "Enslaved Icelander Describes Horror of Barbary Pirate Raid (1627) // Diary of Ólafur Egilsson" video.

The thing about the man from Jerusalem giving her to a Christian is very likely a lie meant to forestall realisation as to the real intention of the slave buyers as to women. Islamic law allows slaves (those whom the right hand possesses) to be used for sexual intercourse and though slave women were often given to Muslim converts and probably other poor retainers as wives there was a reason that the Arab slave trade opposite of the transatlantic was one primarily focused on women (though the pirates at least seem to have taken what they could get the trade from Africa was more organised and regular). Given the price for the women she was probably to enter into the man's own harem as a novelty piece or was to be sold on with the assumption that a women from so far away was one of a kind (especially if he could get her there before others from the raid arrived on market), men like the man writing would probably been of more value being ransomed back, though that was by no means always the case but if they did want him they would likely try to make him convert (converts wouldn't be ransomed back by the Christians, usually monks, whom tried to buy back people without family to buy them back, and so converts became reliant on their benefactor\owner and less likely to leave after an investment in training or being given a wife, etc. Of course this was a system with a lot of individual input so the experience (for men at least) could be quite disparate, being as it was reliant of the fickleties and decision of others. The dice however were tilted towards death or if you a women a life about as pleasant as one.
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