Barbary analogies failed to sway abolition of American Black slavery

Evidence

There were failed efforts of abolitionists to use White slavery in the Barbary states to call for the end of Black slavery in America. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 1409

Categorization

• QUESTION: Why did the analogy fail? Presumably because White Christian captivity was seen as more heinous than Black chattel slavery — which itself exposes the racial logic abolitionists were battling.
• XREF: connects to: Barbary captivity narratives denounced white slavery while ignoring American slavery