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Mohammed El Jetti, « Tétouan, place de rachat des captifs aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles », Cahiers de la Méditerranée, ID : 10.4000/cdlm.7207
Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the phenomenon of captivity grew at a spectacular rate, principally because of warfare among corsairs and between Muslim and Christian forces. Captives, who numbered in the thousands on both sides of the Mediterranean, were integrated into the economy both as a labor force and as a source of wealth through buybacks and the ransom economy. The coastal Moroccan city of Tetouan, which had grown throughout the sixteenth century as a result of the massive influx of Moors, became the center of captive buybacks in the Maghreb.