>>213104077It was the case before 1798. The barbary "piracy" was a regulated legal activity by european laws.
As a matter of fact, a captured european slave had to pay otherwise he could get sued by the pirates in the european High Commercial Courts and lose the case, pic related.
https://journals.openedition.org/cdlm/47
> Did he suport pirates as some sort of naval strategy to counter the British?Algiers and the UK were cool by 1807, they were a tributarian state. Like the united states who paid 30% of the national budget to Algiers.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regency_of_Algiers >United Kingdom 1807: It pledged to pay 100,000 piastres, or 267,500 francs, in exchange for certain privileges.Ironically, the end of the dutch global dominance and the rise of Britain was due to them.
>The Dutch-Algerian war of 1715-1726 can be considered among the key conflicts of the early modern age. It was one of the main causes of a structural shift of shipping hegemony from the Dutch Republic to Great Britain.https://journals.openedition.org/cdlm/8011