By the Late 1570s, Most of Those Captured by the Pirates

question 15

Multiple Choice

By the late 1570s, most of those captured by the pirates along North Africa were

• A) allowed to send letters to relatives on the other side of the Mediterranean requesting ransoms
• B) sold into slavery
• C) stripped of their possessions and abandoned in Algiers or Morocco
• D) robbed of any gold they carried and allowed to continue their voyage

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