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galley slave
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galley slave
a criminal or slave condemned to row in a galley


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had won the day, not only defeating the Turkish fleet but also freeing over 12,000 Christian galley slaves from the Turkish ships.
Davis' findings, as described by the Guardian, "Thousands of white Christians were seized every year to work as galley slaves, laborers and concubines for Muslim overlords in what is today Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Libya.
headquarters as Chief Executive Larry Ellison exhorts his shareholder galley slaves to close that last gap in his race with Bill Gates for the title of world's richest humanoid.
 
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