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If anyone wants to add this for refs and context. The reliability of the estimates of numbers may not be the best but at least this is scholarly work.
Davis, Robert C. “Counting European Slaves on the Barbary Coast.” Past & Present, no. 172 (August 1, 2001): 87–124. available here http://www.jstor.org/stable/3600777
Baepler, Paul. White Slaves, African Masters: An Anthology of American Barbary Captivity Narratives. University of Chicago Press, 1999. here http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=R7kQRyrh2YoC&oi=fnd&pg=PP12&dq=Christian+Slaves,+Muslim+Masters:+White+Slavery+in+the+Mediterranean,+the+Barbary+Coast+and+Italy&ots=xNjLneuTYs&sig=stGGA9kqcAGVOOeO4V4bAjpi-ZU#v=onepage&q&f=false
from Carroll, Rory, and Africa correspondent. “New Book Reopens Old Arguments about Slave Raids on Europe.” The Guardian. Accessed October 14, 2014. http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/mar/11/highereducation.books.
"However David Earle, author of The Corsairs of Malta and Barbary and The Pirate Wars, said that Prof Davis may have erred in extrapolating from 1580-1680 because that was the most intense slaving period..."
I feel the lede is problematic as it does not really deal with the topic: Slavery on the Barbary Coast. Leutha ( talk) 19:38, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
To refer to the slavery as unfree labor is problematic. It may be referring to the fact that slaves would sometimes be bought free again, but that does not negate the fact that it was still slavery. It may also be referring to the male slaves forced to do construction work and similar work, but that is a male-centric perspective: there were women taken as slaves who were sexually abused as concubines, and to refer to that as unfree labor is offensive. I will therefore rephrase that.-- Aciram ( talk) 00:35, 17 February 2024 (UTC)