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The Stolen Village: Baltimore and the Barbary Pirates

Des Ekin
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Des Ekin is a man who tells this story with the narrative flair of a journalist. In 1631 a Dutch renegade sailed to Ireland. One night he landed outside the small village of Baltimore and kidnapped 107 Protestant settlers, took them back to Algeria and sold them.