Posted on 11/29/2022 5:19:50 PM PST by Rummyfan
I don’t mean to bash Mr. Yerby, who opined that “North American slavery [was] indisputably the most abysmally cruel system of bondage in the whole of human history,” but his opinion is objectively disputable. See what you think.
The following is from 2010. I was reminded of it when a guest in this post pointed out that Americans were not the first to export black Africans as slaves. I share it every now and then, usually when someone assumes that I know nothing about the 1400-year-long sacking of my father's home continent. But, with past slaving and slave-holding being all the rage of late, this information has become pertinent once again.
As for the shame-monger who referred to me as a House Negro because I gave the public side-eye to the Ground Zero Mosque -- which never got built -- it turns out that he is Philadelphia Family Court Judge Wayne Bennett. Bennett runs a blog called Field Negro.
A lawyer calls a veteran with a two-year degree a House Negro. Don't you just love the irony?
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In 2008, I posted a YouTube video that had been part of a series exposing the truth about the Islamic Civilization with special emphasis on the horrors of the Trans-Saharan Slave Trade. My intent was to counter the exhortations of Barack Obama's former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, and the like-minded who continue to excoriate America and the rest of Western Civilization for past sins against black African Slaves and Americans of African descent.
The owners of YouTube, however, have blocked the account of John Alembillah Azumah -- the man interviewed in the series and the author of the book, The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa: A Quest for Inter-religious Dialogue. One can guess that some people were offended by the series -- a state of affairs which often occurs when the truth is told.
Here's Azumah's preamble:
The success of Mohammedan Islam in deceiving, misinforming, deforming and contorting both history and reality over a period of almost fourteen hundred years has been astounding--that is, until now.
The greatest tragedy about this particular subject is that most of the descendants of African slavery--the black people in the Americas, around the world, as well as among the African blacks--are totally ignorant of the actual facts.
Before we lose the concentration of our visitors, I would like to make the following statement and then prove it: that the worst, most inhumane and most diabolical of the black African Slave Trade was initiated, refined, perpetrated and implemented by the Mohammedan Arabs and, later, aided and abetted by the black converts to Mohammedan Islam.
I predict that, as usual, the two subcultures--those of denial of facts and of Political Correctness--will attack us without once disproving a single statement and/or conclusion that we make.
And here are some pertinent excerpts:
While the European involvement in the African Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade to the Americas lasted for just over three centuries, the Arab involvement in the African Slave Trade has lasted fourteen centuries and, in some parts of the Mohammedan world, is still continuing to this day.
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It should also be noted that black slaves were castrated based on the assumption that the blacks had an ungovernable sexual appetite.
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A comparison of the Islamic Slave Trade to the American Slave Trade reveals some extremely interesting contrasts.
While two out of every three slaves shipped across the Atlantic were men, the proportions were reversed in the Islamic Slave Trade: two women for every man were enslaved by the Muslims.
While the mortality rate of slaves being transported across the Atlantic was as high as ten percent, the percentage of slaves dying in transit in the Trans-Sahara[n] and East African Slave market was a staggering eighty to ninety percent.
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While many children were born to slaves in the Americas--the millions of their descendants are citizens in Brazil and the United States of today--very few descendants of the slaves that ended up in the Middle East survived. While most slaves who went to the Americas could marry and have families, most of the male slaves destined for the Middle East were castrated and most of the children born to the women were killed at birth.
Azumah pronounces the denial of the facts concerning the on-going Islamic Slave Trade as 'obscene.'
Fake News, Fake Government, Fake History.
They still refuse to state that Portugal was the first european country to take part in the slave trade in 1441.
True, but before that, the muslim jihad across Europe brouught back millions of white European slave to the middles east. Read Jihad, by Paul Fregosi.
https://www.amazon.com/Jihad-West-Muslim-Conquests-Centuries-ebook/dp/B002JCU4G2
Barbary Pirates occupied an island off England that was used as a base for slave raids into England. It was said that here were so many white females in the North African slave markets that a white female could be purchased for the price of an onion!
In the 90’s I took a required course in African American History in Georgia. The professor was African American, The course textbook was written by an African American. The people that argued with the professor the most were the African American students, who didn’t believe the textbook or the professor. The problem was the slave trade to Africa and Brazil were larger and much worse than the slave trade to America. The students just knew America was the worst. Then they didn’t want to believe that naval patrols by Great Britain and America finally brought the Atlantic slave trade to an end. And of course European armies had to have invaded Africa to gather the slaves, because the Africans wouldn’t sell slaves to white people. I just wished I could have had a phone that would have let me record it. And popcorn.... I enjoyed that class.
Irony of ironies.
The reason the word “slave” has its meaning is because so many Slavs were enslaved in the Middle Ages...many of them ending up as slaves in the Muslim countries. (The present-day Slavs of Eastern Europe are descendants of those left behind.)
The United States as we know it is about to go down the memory hole.
Thank you.........
https://etymology.net/slave/
Insanity, it is nothing more or less than that.
Here’s a chunk of a book by the great Thomas Sowell on slavery. (He’s reading it, and it includes some pictures)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyPWjjWs7-w
Bkmk
In the late 8th and early 9th Centuries AD, the Norwegians were raiding coastal Scotland specifically to capture slaves to sell in the interior of Europe.
They weren't just "trading" slaves, they were capturing them, transporting them to market, and conducting the sales themselves.
I should have specified the slave trade involving africans. Forgive me!
Facts that seem to have been tossed in the memory hole:
1. Slavery has been a common aspect of the human condition from Old Testament times through now.
2. Every racial group on earth has both kept slaves and been enslaved.
3. The ancestors of today’s American blacks were, for the most part, sold into slavery by other blacks.
4. It was white Christians in England and the United States who first declared slavery to be immoral and went about putting a stop to it.
5. As a white person of Slavic ancestry, I likely have more slaves in my ancestry than most American blacks.
6. The practice of slavery is kept alive today mostly by Islam.
Classic projection by muslims.
And mostly females, for concubinage. It's why most of the ruling class in the Middle Eastern countries looks Caucasian.
BUMP for later
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