
For over 1,000 years, until Venice and Genoa became strong republics and the Normans conquered Sicily, Saracen pirates plundered the Italian coasts with hit-and-run raids, in which in addition to stealing food supplies, looting churches and sacred places, they kidnapped, raped and enslaved tens of thousands of slaves.
Yes exactly: Africans enslaved whites.
Even if they were Arab North Africans.
These are all events widely known in all history books, but little known by ordinary people because this type of history is not told in school.