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In the late middle ages and early modern period many thousands of Christians and Muslims were enslaved and then ransomed by corsairs of the opposite faith. Was there any anxiety in Christian lands about recently ransomed Christians (or Jews) being crypto-Muslims/"turning Turk"?

by /u/screwyoushadowban in /r/AskHistorians

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